Why the obsession with homsexuality?

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This forum seems to be obsessed with issues around homosexuality. Why?
 
Sometimes as our world moves forward in the area of human rights, there are those who want to hold on to the myth that the world is the same as it was 50, 150 or 1500 years ago. When gay people began breaking out of their personal closets it frightened many good and loving people.:cool:
 
TimothyH said:
This forum seems to be obsessed with issues around homosexuality. Why?
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It’s hardly just this forum. How the Church should treat gays and lesbians was a major issue of discussion at the Synod of Bishops on the Family which was held at the Vatican last October. That discussion is to continue later this year. The issue of same-sex marriage is also a big issue in the courts right now and in other Christian denominations.
 
The whole planet is coming to an acceptance of homosexuality on a legal/cultural basis for the most part, perhaps, especially in terms of accepting it morally.

The Catholic Church is the one moral authority that has not fallen to the lies and continues to speak out against the lies and the morality of homosexual behavior. Others still attempt to counter the movement but the non-Catholic Christians are not sufficiently united to do so, and a fair number of Christians have come to believe that accepting homosexuality is the charitable thing to do.

It’s not just a shift in the U.S. The shift is global.
 
Fear has nothing to do with it. When someone insinuates that my response is motivated by fear, I immediately lose respect for that person’s intellectual rigor.

Fear is a paralytic. It incapacitates our intellect and our will. It prevents us from seeing truth, or if we do see the truth, fear prevents us from acting on our knowledge of the truth. When someone says “What are you afraid of?” what they are insinuating to any listeners is, “This person obviously isn’t thinking straight, or if they are, they are too paralyzed to act on what they know in their minds to be true”. It is lazy debating because it doesn’t address the issue with reason, it simply attacks the opponent by drawing suspicions about his emotional state.

The reason this topic comes up a lot here is because it is a hot social topic and the opponents of the Church are very vocal in their opposition. It is something that the average person trying to stay faithful to Christ’s gospel encounters in the workplace, social settings, and even at home. They come here to discuss it with fellow Christians and gain a better understanding of God’s will for marriage and family.
 
The secular world is obsessed with the subject right now, so of course the Church has to respond and ordinary Catholics will be drawn into the debate.
 
Is not that the church is obsessed with homosexuality, rather is the homosexual agenda has been push into the churches norms. In other words, it’s the other way around and the church has to proclaim the absolute truth till the end of times.
 
Nope.

Not an obsession but a response to one of the current cultures unfortunate fixation and promotion. Together with the assault upon Christian businesses et all by those of the homosexual -gay marriage movement.

Thus a quite current topic. It did not used to be but has become so with the current events.
 
JamalChristophr said:
The whole planet is coming to an acceptance of homosexuality on a legal/cultural basis for the most part, perhaps, especially in terms of accepting it morally.

The Catholic Church is the one moral authority that has not fallen to the lies and continues to speak out against the lies and the morality of homosexual behavior.

It’s not just a shift in the U.S. The shift is global.
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Right now it’s still mainly a Western mania, but of course in the modern world there’s the potential for such things to go truly global.
 
I am not against persons who say they are gay. That said, the wide spread legitimization of the Homosexual perspective is a virus that has turned into a global pandemic. It will be the Church that is certain to be immune from being infected with it. And that will lead to an ever growing confrontation between opposing powers.
 
tamedlion said:
Is not that the church is obsessed with homosexuality, rather is the homosexual agenda has been push into the churches norms. In other words, it’s the other way around and the church has to proclaim the absolute truth till the end of times.
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Amen!
 
I don’t think is an obsession. The discussion steams from the fact that is the current issue that is tried to be introduced in society as normal and there is a push for it to be seen as perfectly normal. Do we need to discuss about whether murder is moral? How many people are going tobargue that murder is perfectly acceptable? Do we need to discuss the morality of stealing? No because no one on their right mind is going to argue for a law that makes stealing legal.

Yge same could probably have been said of abortion in the 70’s when Roe v Wade. Why people were constantly about abortion precisely because it was being normalized in society. Nothing to do with obsession.
 
kozlosap said:
Sometimes as our world moves forward in the area of human rights, there are those who want to hold on to the myth that the world is the same as it was 50, 150 or 1500 years ago. When gay people began breaking out of their personal closets it frightened many good and loving people.:cool:
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Speak for yourself, my good man.

I’ve been friends with gay people my whole life. I have never changed a thing. I have always loved them. The only thing that has changed is that some of them have been more critical of my beliefs. Because some of them buy into the lies fed by the media. Of course, many of them are wise to what’s going on. They may not be on the same page as the Church, but they know that the increasing rhetoric is coming from people with political agendas. Average joe gay people aren’t afraid of the influence that the Church has when it comes to social issues, political partisans are. Average joe gay people are fine with live and let live.
 
TimothyH said:
This forum seems to be obsessed with issues around homosexuality. Why?
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Obsessed? Rather a cause for concern. Concerned with how swift the tide has changed, especially with young Catholics. When you have S.F. Archbishop Cordileone simply adhering to truth, and the Catholics there sign a petition that calls on Pope Francis to replace the Archbishop for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance," the Church in my view has a serious problem. Or, when a Dominican Sister speaks the truth on topics such as homosexuality, divorce and single parents at a N.C. Catholic High School, angering students, parents and staff to the point that the students launch an online petition calling her comments “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory,” firing off emails to the U.S.C.C.B. and even to the Vatican…again, this suggests a serious problem. When your flock can’t be convinced, you have serious trouble. What will the climate be like say ten years down the road?

Peace, Mark
 
Mark121359 said:
When you have S.F. Archbishop Cordileone simply adhering to truth, and the Catholics there sign a petition that calls on Pope Francis to replace the Archbishop for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance," the Church in my view has a serious problem.
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Among the complaints in the full-page ad “signed by more than 100 prominent Roman Catholic donors and church members” that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle was that the Archbishop had installed a pastor at Star of the Sea parish who had “inexplicably distributed to elementary school age children an age-inappropriate and potentially abusive, sexually oriented pamphlet” According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the pamphlet asked the children “whether they had masturbated, engaged in sodomy or undergone an abortion.” :rolleyes:

sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Prominent-Catholics-call-on-pope-to-oust-S-F-6202539.php
 
Havard said:
Speak for yourself, my good man.

I’ve been friends with gay people my whole life. I have never changed a thing. I have always loved them. The only thing that has changed is that some of them have been more critical of my beliefs. Because some of them buy into the lies fed by the media. Of course, many of them are wise to what’s going on. They may not be on the same page as the Church, but they know that the increasing rhetoric is coming from people with political agendas. Average joe gay people aren’t afraid of the influence that the Church has when it comes to social issues, political partisans are. Average joe gay people are fine with live and let live.
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Total agreement with you.
 
Mark121359 said:
Obsessed? Rather a cause for concern. Concerned with how swift the tide has changed, especially with young Catholics. When you have S.F. Archbishop Cordileone simply adhering to truth, and the Catholics there sign a petition that calls on Pope Francis to replace the Archbishop for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance," the Church in my view has a serious problem. Or, when a Dominican Sister speaks the truth on topics such as homosexuality, divorce and single parents at a N.C. Catholic High School, angering students, parents and staff to the point that the students launch an online petition calling her comments “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory,” firing off emails to the U.S.C.C.B. and even to the Vatican…again, this suggests a serious problem. When your flock can’t be convinced, you have serious trouble. What will the climate be like say ten years down the road?

Peace, Mark
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bolded emphasis of Mark’s quote mine.

So true.
 
TimothyH said:
This forum seems to be obsessed with issues around homosexuality. Why?
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Good question. It seems to be “the issue of our times”. Maybe someone should open a thread about heterosexual Marriage and its goods for society?
 
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