"Biblical Commission: homosexual unions should not be condemned"

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Do people follow you around affirming you all day in case you might sin? Why are they so blessed?
 
sarapani said:
But does anyone else feel that way? That it is (much more) convenient to be catholic If you are heterosexual?
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The marriage laws are tough too so it isn’t exactly a walk in the park either.
 
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Yet strangely God did not rain fire and brimstone on the natives when just before Our Lord`s, birth they (Our Lady and St Joseph) failed to obtain hospitality in Bethlehem!
 
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I knew a gay man who was “in the closet”, and he told me he had been kicked out of two Protestant churches for being “gay”. He went on to tell me that as they age, they are less able to attract a partner because the lifestyle is very youth-oriented. Then he asked me if I thought anyone would actually choose that for themselves. It is evidently a sad way to live. It’s been a while back and now everyone knows. But of all the churches, I think the Catholic Church is among the most accepting.
Of course now people are choosing it - and their gender, too!
As I learned it, marriage has a two-fold purpose, to produce children and to provide love and comfort for one another. So they are missing out on two blessings.
Like you, I think it is a hard thing for many of these people - just imagining the guilt they must feel if they are Catholic, knowing that what they want is evil. But many resist and stay faithful. The popular Catholic priest and writer Henri Nouwen was homosexual.
Don’t you wish we could see a study giving statistics on how many people leave the Church over this?
 
My sister told me that many Catholics leave the Church because of their homosexual tendencies.

As for the Biblical Commission: My question would be: Did the Commission actually say these things or was it non Catholic outsiders just taking things out of context again?
 
Thank you for that information.
Evidently this was something of a tempest in a teapot. The blogger that wrote that article either didn’t read the whole thing or something else was wrong. I don’t know if they are Catholic or not. Just look up “Catholic News Service Pontifical Biblical Commission, homosexuality”. I was going to put a link in here but the system warned me I had already posted it. You can look it up this way or find my earlier post. The pertinent part is at the very end of the article.
 
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Given that, if I’m right; only what? 3% of people are homosexual?
 
God does not create homosexual proclivity any more than He creates any other disorder! I find your answers to be too nuanced. Can you definitively say that homosexuality is a Holy creation?
 
How do people help not to masturbate? Are you a young person? Please don’t answer it’s private I realize.
 
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God makes us as he does. And people are all endowed with a a special human dignity. With a soul.
“…Who chose us in him since the foundations of the world.” Ephesians 1:4
 
The burden of no intimacy with the people who you are involuntarily attracted to?
I find emphasis on these kinds of sins always seems to be where there is a public " showing" of piety. A rally! Where the stone throwers has no skin in the game.
Abortion is a serious sin. But the truth is it is another of the sins that:
Won’t require a withdrawal from the bank.
A personal decision
Or
An investment of self.
A perfect sin to base holiness that requires little more than a declaration and vote. ( When one is inclined to do little more.)Which vote invariably has the added fringe benefit of cutting services to the poor and cutting taxes for the wealthy.
As for love of enemy. Something Jesus actually highlighted? Crickets
 
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Weserthy said:
So while it isn’t all doom and gloom yet, there are reasons to be concerned about this, in my opinion.
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Unfortunately, this is the trend in the Church these days. Take something known as truth for 20 centuries, “reassess” it, then come out with a word salad statement that on one hand seems to uphold tradition, but on the other can be taken to mean the teaching can and will change.

There is nothing “further to study” here. “Science” cannot allow sin. Homosexuality as an attraction is disordered and acts are intrinsically evil. But apparently a day can’t go by without something in the world having to be seen through the lens of homosexuality.
 
Nice post. It would be beneficial for Catholics blessed with heterosexual identity to read a book like “WOUNDED PROPHET” about Nouwen and his suffering.
Catholics should always be mindful that Jesus quite deliberately ministered to sinners and what that meant. Authorities and the " worthy" despised him for it. It is a reasonable hypothesis to say they killed him for it.
He was the Son of God. Yet he was not what the world celebrates in their deities. They worship God’s, who triumph with power and fire bolts and golden chariots and pretty stuff like that.
Our Christ is unique in all faith traditions. He died broken and naked hung to a tree. A FORGIVING VICTIM. THE traditional Catholic practice of Saints and others is to " gaze upon the cross." It is a practice in plumbing the depths of empathy and God’s love. THAT IS WHO WE UNIQUELY ARE. IT is the very reason being Catholic is the best thing to be.
 
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MaryFrances said:
I knew a gay man who was “in the closet”, and he told me he had been kicked out of two Protestant churches for being “gay”. He went on to tell me that as they age, they are less able to attract a partner because the lifestyle is very youth-oriented. Then he asked me if I thought anyone would actually choose that for themselves. It is evidently a sad way to live. It’s been a while back and now everyone knows. But of all the churches, I think the Catholic Church is among the most accepting.
Of course now people are choosing it - and their gender, too!
As I learned it, marriage has a two-fold purpose, to produce children and to provide love and comfort for one another. So they are missing out on two blessings.
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I know quite a few older gay men who are in long-term relationships. I’m almost 60 myself and have been with my partner for more than 20 years. So, not all gay men are living lonely, companion-less lives with no one to provide love and comfort. And it’s not as if all older straight men have an easy time attracting a partner in life. Our culture in general is very youth-oriented.

And there are a number of churches which welcome LGBT people including the Episcopalians, the ELCA Lutherans, some Presbyterian and Methodist congregations, etc. My partner and I attend a Lutheran church.
 
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Further, the “all of the commands in Leviticus” argument is a patently spurious argument as explained here beginning at 4:36:


Though it is the kind of duplicitous argument that deludes followers of this video’s subject.
 
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Yeah, previous copy was still saved. Now you know…Lynyrd Skinnerd! 😁
 
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