Its one thing to say this, but to live it is something else. I have a handful of friends from high school that are now gay (4 out of 5 were not gay in high school). I still message with them occasionally and they are FB friends, but I have noticed they expect all their friends to support their lifestyle and Im not referring to simply being gay, Im talking about living a gay life, living together with their ‘partner’, and in one case, 2 gay females adopted a young girl.
lol…“used to be good looking”
something happened huh. Well as for myself I don’t just go around telling everyone I am Catholic. I know one person I knew that I had a confession outside of a restaurant once. So I guess I’m not hiding it. And the few gay people I know who have told me I say nothing bad to them. People are what they are. God is the better judge as to the issues they have. And all sin is against him, and ultimately forgiven by him. I would if they come onto you, let them know your not interested and there should be no problem.
I don’t understand why you think the “sin” of homosexuality is worse than the sin of fornication.
Indeed. It’s grave matter. And a sin of the flesh as are many things. They can be the hardest to deal with. I have my own fleshly issues, not homosexuality but otherwise. The way I understand we are to see venial and grave matter. And also the OP doesn’t know what culpability either this person has.
From the OP of this topic I predict the answer will be “The Bible doesn’t list fornication among the sins crying out to heaven for vengeance, so God Himself sees homosexual sins, as a worse sin than heterosexual sexual sins”.
If you adhere to your claim that being gay is = to being a murderer then you are well outside what the Church teaches.
These people want “equal rights”. I am still wondering what that means. As far as “feel-goodism” theory. In practical terms, they want the rights to start trouble in the courts. And to get anywhere there the law must be perverted.
Hang out. Humm. That’s one that I have never been able to figure out about people. Hang out or around sounds to me like “wondering about aimlessly. Nothing to do and no where to go.” I myself don’t “hang out”. In this life you will find you will have very few friends. Real friends. One, if your very fortunate maybe two at the most. The rest are there with “masks”. I never hang out. I will go out and socialize with people if I am in that kinda place. But it stops there. People will be surprised. If you have nothing to do and are unhappy, when you go somewhere and have something to do. You will be unhappy, only doing things. It’s best to be content where you are IMO. “My peace I have I give to you.”
I use the term “hang out” because it generalized normal social activities without listing them endlessly…going to films, restaurants, concerts, etc.
Oh I see.
Going to films would be private. I would really have to know someone myself. Restaurants, concerts…that might be ok. Riding around in a car for example. That’s what started a lot of this dating thing. of course no one mentioned dating All have sinned and fall short of the glory of the Lord. I think you miss the point of the post I replied to. “Go and sin no more” was what He said to those He healed. While the Apostles were not perfect I think we can differentiate them from the general population of that era.
Generally you don’t have to un-friend them. If you don’t buy into their homosexual belief system, they will want nothing to do with you.In response to your replies, I know God loves the homosexual people. And yes, I understand Jesus ate with the sinners. He spoke with the woman at well, and told her her sin. I do the same, I however am not going to be friends with the people who are not going to repent after my repeated tries. So no, I am not friends with them any longer. I don’t see the need to be friends with them if they don’t convert and repent. I will always be there for them when they do have a conversion.
And yes, I do treat other sins the same that are in the category of the four grave sins I listed and many other grave sins. I sure as heck am not going to hang out with a murderer, or a miser who doesn’t pay the worker his due wages. The homosexual sin is objectively evil. I am not going to hang out with people who do evil. I have learned the hard way that evil people have really evil spirits and I don’t want these evil spirits attacking me. Plus, the saints didn’t hang out with bad company. St. Louis de Montfort said that and so did St. Thomas Aquinas.
Here are some bible verses on the topic,
1 Cor. 15:33, “Do not be deceived bad company ruins good morals.”
This bible verse speaks clearly, we are not to be in bad company.
1 John 3:7-8, “Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”
Ps. 1:1-6, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …”
Proverbs 12:26, “One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
2 Cor. 6:14, “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
This trite meme is really quite shameful and rude. It’s no more than a shoutdown tactic.
