It was you who brought it up so it falls on you to substantiate your claim.
The forum is rife with provocateurs, old and new members from various agnostics, atheists, and self identified religious affiliations including baptized Catholics who do not believe much less follow teachings on morality. I am not saying you necessarily fall in one of the mentioned categories.
However, your saying you came across posts by others here at CAF who described gays and lesbians as “demonic” but you are not prepared to point to an example or show any such posting is irresponsible, in my view. You are fanning the flames of further misunderstanding, and deepening the resentment by those with homosexual inclination or practice against Catholics. I am not referring to faux Catholics. At the least, you would be guilty of hyperbole yourself.
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She might be right about the demonic reference but as you said, we have all sorts of people on CAF. The view of one, two or three does not reflect the view of all. The fact is, most people here simply rightly condemn the practice of homosexuality. However, we all do it differently and the reception is also different.
For me, whenever I feel like we are being attacked because of our Catholic position, whenever Catholics are being persecuted for exercising their freedom of conscience, I tend to be very defensive and take a very tough position. We get attacked a lot from some Catholics and others on this forum. I personally do not hesitate to fight back and in so doing, I use the language I believe is appropriate for the encounter. So the language people use also depends on the situation. I will not debate with a gay activitist in the same way as I would debate with let’s just go with the term a “celibate gay”.
I have listened to some of the critics and I personally will endeavour to always make it clear when directing my posts towards militants and lobbies so that those who do not disagree with Church teaching and persecute or support the persecution of Christians shouldn’t feel targeted.
A gay person on this forum once told me this:
Nota bene - referring to gay people as “gays” or “the gays” is offensive to them and their allies and so there’s no need to use them when there’s a number of non-offensive terms you can use.
I told him that I didn’t know that, because it is a term other gay people use. Just like in “gays and lesbians”. So I never would have imagined that the word “gays” could be offensive.
Based on that, it seems like, no matter what we say and how we say it, it is still likely that someone would still be offended. That is why I like to quote Santi2
You are in a Catholic forum and plenty of what is discussed here will offend you. So, you’ll have to have a broad back as I am not the only Catholic member who holds that same-sex union is not, and will never be, on equal footing with heterosexual marriages. Regardless of what contemporary law dictates. For all the reasons that various posters with same view have already stated in regard thereto.
The mere fact that we disagree with the so called “same-sex marriage” is offensive to some people (and we have all sorts of people on this forum). So it is not always about the language. As long as we do not accept homosexuality, some people will always be offended! We need to get used to that.
gracepoole believes or used to believe that, we, Catholics, do not acknowledge that homosexuals get assaulted. She started a thread about a gay man who was assaulted to prove her point. She thinks or thought that we do not condemn such attacks. BTW, it turned out that the person in question wasn’t attacked because he was gay, but rather, it was a drug related crime and the person just happened to be a drug dealer (who was gay) and some were trying to spin the story.
What I mean is,
if she believes that we deny the fact that people get attacked because of their sexual orientation and do not condemn such attacks, then…what can we say?
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