The only reason why I’m writing this is because I’m sick and tired of being called ‘evil’ just because of my sexual orientation.
I strongly believe I’m a loving person. I love my life, my family and friends. ALL human beings are creatures of love, no matter what they are attracted to.
At the end of the day that’s all it is, a sexual orientation. Just because I’m gay doesnt mean I’m ‘evil’. I’m tired of the Catholic Church in particular persuading people that it’s wrong. It is not, nor has it ever been.
In reference to another thread about gay couples being allowed to adopt, to quote one of this websites answers “Adoption is for the benefit of the child involved”. Are you saying a child is better to be in a foster home rather than be adopted by a same-sex couple? I am telling you that any child would be lucky to have two dads or two mothers.
Homosexuality is not contagious, its not caused by mothers ‘loving’ their child that bit too much. I was born this way.
I always wonder why the Church continues this mentality, when thousands of people (teenagers in particular) are committing suicide because they can’t live with being gay because YOU are telling them they are evil?
I know the chances of a half decent rebuttal to this is slim, but I had to let you know my opinion.
-Johnny
I just wanted to share something i heard in my church , the Priest of this church had shared a story on the issue and i do not remember it completely just that he had said he knew of someone who was gay, and that to some degree he had tried to explain why being gay is a sin and that he wanted to help this young man to overcome being homosexual, and in turn the young man didnt talk to him any more after that. ( and i am paraphrasing what i remember roughly )
my two cents on all of this, which probably isn’t even worth two cents…
and I am over simplifing this to probably the worst degree possible…
If one were to look at this issue as a game, the team one wants to play for is the Catholic Church, the rules are this team does not support Gay marrage, and will not marry gay couples, and considers or has put into cannon law that being a homosexual is a sin.
That is it, one coming into this " game " doesn’t have control over the rules, you either accept it or you don’t you either abide by the rules or you don’t, and you either back up the rules or you don’t.
The Church has very limited resources from historical scriptures that address this issue, which leaves everything open for debate, since no one took the time to sit down and write down in detail on an issue that was current even back when scriptures where first being written.
If people where to have debated the subject when scripture was first being written, on love, how God created man and woman to pro create, but how can fundamental love between two people of any sex be considered evil or a sin…
I mean how can anyone truthfully answer this now ?
So one has to make a choice and cross a line and either say I am going to abide by the rules set forth and play for this team. laws change in America from time to time on Gays in the military to States choosing to allow for Gay marrage, but the Holy Church does not play the Game America plays.
We as Catholics are at least lucky in that the Church only considers homosexuality a sin and thus able to be redeemed through confession and nothing more than that .
And consider this, only recently ( relatively speaking ) have girls been allowed to be Alter Servers, and not just girls women too.
So if this issue of Homosexuality is ever going to change in the Holy Church to grant marrage to homosexuals and support a homosexual family, it will not be in our life time and will probably take nothing less than point blank divine intervention upon a future Pope to come to such a conclusion.
But could the Holy Church at least speak up on behalf of homosexual teenagers, to let them know, you are not some evil and damned for eternity creature or some mistake by God, and any homosexual for that matter, I would say yes to that, and simply add that the Holy Church or scripture only considers it a sin, and that it requires confession and that every sinner is welcome to turn to Jesus in the Catholic faith and is encouraged to do so and put their trust in him.
As to if the Church is " Wrong" as stated in the title of this thread, I would say no it is not, again the rules set in the Holy Church were established through faith based on scripture. We as a free People in America can challenge rules established by politicians, but rules based on faith we need to at the very least, respect and back up in some form or another, and leave the rest in the hands of God.
If you want to form another thread, consider what Islam thinks of Homosexuality and the rules set forth on how to treat those who are Homosexuals Versus the Catholic Church.
What a pile of rot!
