I’m not getting your point here. The same is true for premarital sex, contraception, and divorce and remarriage unfortunately.
Yet for some reason if one dare talks about being gay it’s viewed as the end of the word on here even if celibate for crying out loud. Yet all those heterosexual sins basically accepted by society and many Christians as okay and seemingly give them a pass. … the outrage just isnt there which gives off this perception of hypocrisy which makes talking about catholic sexual ethic all that more difficult.
I could give many reasons why being more open about my sexuality helps me in carrying my cross in fidelity with Church teaching (because being open doesnt mean suddenly wearing rainbows everywhere and making it the first thng one ever talks about, its just if it comes up i can talk about it without having the mental fight about masking my expressions and thinking about how to deflect).
I also find it disengenious by some on here to be intentionally obtuse about this issue. No one is getting disowned, losing their job, facing threat of violence for having a preference for someone who is a redhead vs blonde. Yet I have friends disowned from their family, I worry about disownmenr, who have lost jobs, been thrown out of their churches all for being gay despite being celibate. When people make comments like that it becomes quite clear that they are rather ignorant on the issue or seemingly don’t actually care about gsy people like me. They just lament the periods where they could pretend they don’t really exist. I will again plug Washed and Waiting by Wesley Hill. It is a short read and is a wonderful narrative and testimony of a gay/ssa person wrestling with this issue while adhering to a traditional sexual ethic. It’s also a relatively quick read.
I’m just when tempted it’s by a different object. It means I have to be careful about distorting love for another guy (which can be good if expressed like love that is found in friendship) into a romantic love which should be reserved for a married couple (which in our teaching is between a man and a woman that should be open to life).
Think about the hugely disproportionate media attention gay people have gotten in recent years. No one “pretended” there were no gay people. Did no one know in the 1960s or 1970s? I worked with LGBT people in the 70’s and early 80’s. We all got along. I didn’t think for one second what they did on their own time. It was none of my business. The same with heterosexuals regarding sexual activity. Privacy meant private for everybody.
But today, some are saying, “Hey. What’s the big deal?” I’ll tell you what’s the big deal. Going to the voting booth and seeing same-sex marriage on the ballot. Who put it there? Seeing billboards with two men who wanted marriage. Hearing about “marriage equality.” Opening the newspaper to read comments from readers when same-sex marriage was voted down in my state, “The great hate state.” Irrational. 5 year old Bobby has no clue. Then, in public schools, gay/same-sex marriage story books given to little kids - by who? The list goes on and on.
First, heterosexual marriage was attacked, then gay marriage appeared on the scene. The traditional family had to go. Women were all victims. All men were enemies. We didn’t get here overnight but I watched it unfold. SSM was voted down twice in California, the President “evolved” on the issue, who, just previous was being given a hard time by the LGBT media over not moving fast enough to give them what they wanted, and then the whole Boy Scouts issue and Trans. Next, asexuality - whatever that means.
No one needs my permission to do anything. The Supreme Court saw to that.
The media has sided with sexual immorality. Decade after decade, TV and movies portrayed immoral sexual activity a little, then more explicitly and then even more explicitly. I CANNOT see most movies. I NEVER asked for any of this. But, over time, the media propaganda wore people down - gradually, like a slow poison. I read the LGBT press. They are upset that LGBT characters will be, depending on the source, less visible or invisible on TV and/or movies this year. While pretending to care for other minorities, it’s clear that they primarily care for sexual immorality.
I watch this as part of my job and on my own time. It boils down to sex with whoever, whenever and with as many partners as possible. Marriage? Who needs it? The Return On Investment is so low anyway.
Ed
