Could this be implying commendation of homosexuality?

[gntlmnr]

Hello dear D0UBTFIRE, thank you for sympathizing with us homosexuals. I noticed in your religion field that you are “Agnostic 5 yrs after converting to Catholic”. I was wondering what turned you off in the Catholic Church that made you leave.

As for myself, I was raised in a Catholic family, and I was more religious than the average person in my age group, but when I discovered my homosexuality, I became a very lukewarm Catholic, then I drifted into agnosticism, and I even was trying atheism for a while. Eventually, I discovered that all of these options did not do a thing to resolve my problems, but on the contrary, my problems were getting worse, and I started feeling like an aimless wanderer on the face of the earth that has absolutely no purpose in life.

What brought me back to Catholicism was really the personality of Jesus Himself. One day I started reading the New Testament, and of course, I started reading the gospel of Matthew, and I came to the sermon on the mount. When I was Catholic, I was familiar with the sermon on the mount, but now that I was having a fresh look at it again, I saw it in a totally different light, and it moved me. So I went through the 4 gospels in a couple of days. I was reading the whole thing like I was reading it for the first time, and I was amazed by the personality of our Jesus; then I thought to myself that Jesus is really the greatest personality I know in history, and the second best personality is extremely far from Jesus’. So I started coming back gradually to the Catholic Church, and now I am a practicing Catholic again.

So please, no matter what it is that turned you off is negligible when you consider how great Jesus is. Jesus is beautiful. So please come back to the Catholic Church. Come back home.

 

[Elizium23]

Hello dear D0UBTFIRE, thank you for sympathizing with us homosexuals. I noticed in your religion field that you are “Agnostic 5 yrs after converting to Catholic”. I was wondering what turned you off in the Catholic Church that made you leave.

It’s interesting that you use the phrase “turned you off” because at the root of many people’s departure is what’s below their belt and how it guides our thinking.

I certainly can’t comment on D0UBTFIRE’s case, but I will tell you my own. I left the Church for eleven years. During that time I had umpteen girlfriends, cohabited with some, and facilitated two abortions, not to mention my sins of contraception, jealousy, rage and plain irresponsibility. I firmly rejected what the Church told me, and refused to admit that I was wrong. Why? Silence and misunderstanding. I learned all about sex as a teenager, not in school or at home, but from Playboy and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The Church dealt in silence. I was fed lies by the secular culture, and starving for Truth, I lapped up the lies readily.

When I hit rock bottom and finally heard the faint whisper of God pleading for my return, I still misunderstood sexual morality as taught by the Church. But submitting my will and assent to humble obedience of Christ, I set about learning WHAT the Church really teaches, and WHY she teaches those things. I found a masterpiece of logic and reason. Once I fully grasped the Divine design behind Natural Law, I wholeheartedly accepted everything revealed by the Church. Once I understood that chastity is not a locked belt around our waists, but an easy yoke of freedom and liberty, I gladly jettisoned all that poison I had accepted from the Devil. With help from the Lord I put away my disordered desires and even conquered masturbation and pornography, which are twin scourges claiming many of the best souls of gentlemen today.

Ignorance and selfishness are at the root of sexual immorality. If everyond were able to conquer both of these, they would lovingly accept the teachings of Christ as the precious gift that they truly are. Once we sincerely invite Christ into our hearts is when, truly, #Lovewins.

 

[gntlmnr]

It’s interesting that you use the phrase “turned you off” because at the root of many people’s departure is what’s below their belt and how it guides our thinking.

I certainly can’t comment on D0UBTFIRE’s case, but I will tell you my own. I left the Church for eleven years. During that time I had umpteen girlfriends, cohabited with some, and facilitated two abortions, not to mention my sins of contraception, jealousy, rage and plain irresponsibility. I firmly rejected what the Church told me, and refused to admit that I was wrong. Why? Silence and misunderstanding. I learned all about sex as a teenager, not in school or at home, but from Playboy and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The Church dealt in silence. I was fed lies by the secular culture, and starving for Truth, I lapped up the lies readily.

When I hit rock bottom and finally heard the faint whisper of God pleading for my return, I still misunderstood sexual morality as taught by the Church. But submitting my will and assent to humble obedience of Christ, I set about learning WHAT the Church really teaches, and WHY she teaches those things. I found a masterpiece of logic and reason. Once I fully grasped the Divine design behind Natural Law, I wholeheartedly accepted everything revealed by the Church. Once I understood that chastity is not a locked belt around our waists, but an easy yoke of freedom and liberty, I gladly jettisoned all that poison I had accepted from the Devil. With help from the Lord I put away my disordered desires and even conquered masturbation and pornography, which are twin scourges claiming many of the best souls of gentlemen today.

Ignorance and selfishness are at the root of sexual immorality. If everyond were able to conquer both of these, they would lovingly accept the teachings of Christ as the precious gift that they truly are. Once we sincerely invite Christ into our hearts is when, truly, #Lovewins.

I don’t know what kind of message you are trying to deliver to me here. I am homosexual, and I am living a chaste life. Were you aware of that before you wrote your post?

Besides, the problems that I was facing with my homosexuality were far from being issues that have to do with what is below the belt. I detested my life of solitude and isolation, and sex had absolutely nothing to do with my suffering. Heck, if I wanted sex, that was so extremely easy for me to get. I am a much better than average looking man.

 

[Elizium23]

I don’t know what kind of message you are trying to deliver to me here. I am homosexual, and I am living a chaste life. Were you aware of that before you wrote your post?

Besides, the problems that I was facing with my homosexuality were far from being issues that have to do with what is below the belt. I detested my life of solitude and isolation, and sex had absolutely nothing to do with my suffering. Heck, if I wanted sex, that was so extremely easy for me to get. I am a much better than average looking man.

I commend you for the courage to live chastely, but I wasn’t aiming the delivery of my message at you in particular. I just wanted to convey my personal conversion story and address the general question of why Catholics leave the Church as well as why so many dissent from her teachings on sex.

However, I empathize with your feelings of solitude and isolation. The more time I spent ignoring God, the more selfish and needy I became, and I was extremely unpleasant to be around. I lost all my friends, I was homeless for years, and even after that, I isolated myself in a little shell, afraid to reach out to other people.

One of the turning points in my life was the decision to form stronger relationships with other men. I had always had mostly female friends of all types, and I considered men second-class citizens to be used or avoided. Once I joined the Knights of Columbus, and focused on fellowship and fraternity with men, my attitudes about everything changed. I don’t know how to apply this principle to homosexuality, but it worked for me.

 

[gntlmnr]

I commend you for the courage to live chastely, but I wasn’t aiming the delivery of my message at you in particular. I just wanted to convey my personal conversion story and address the general question of why Catholics leave the Church as well as why so many dissent from her teachings on sex.

However, I empathize with your feelings of solitude and isolation. The more time I spent ignoring God, the more selfish and needy I became, and I was extremely unpleasant to be around. I lost all my friends, I was homeless for years, and even after that, I isolated myself in a little shell, afraid to reach out to other people.

One of the turning points in my life was the decision to form stronger relationships with other men. I had always had mostly female friends of all types, and I considered men second-class citizens to be used or avoided. Once I joined the Knights of Columbus, and focused on fellowship and fraternity with men, my attitudes about everything changed. I don’t know how to apply this principle to homosexuality, but it worked for me.

Sorry to hear about you becoming homeless for years. I think this is the bottom of desolation, and it is the most frightening nightmare for anybody. I almost became homeless myself. I lost my job several times because of my bipolar disorder; but one million thanks to Jesus and to my very supportive parents and brother and sister, I was able to avoid that.

Now I don’t suffer from isolation anymore, because I live with my sister, and she is completely supportive (not financially), although she is not aware of my sexuality.