Why would a straight person leave the Catholic Church over our teaching on gay marriage?

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My coworker used to be Catholic. When i asked why she no longer goes to church, she said because the Catholic Church is against gay marriage. She is a straight married woman with kids. Why would a straight married woman care so much about the church not accepting gay marriage? Do you think she is secretly a lesbian? It does not make sense to me why a straight person would leave the church over that.

Did she really believe in God in the first place? Or does she worship gay people and wants?
 
Because she believes the Church is unfair, biased, and teaching a moral evil.

Obviously the Church is correct, but I don’t see what’s hard to understand here. To be obtuse and blunt about it in extreme terms, if the Church taught that all non-white people should be enslaved or executed, would you question why a white person would leave the Church over that?
 
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Speaking as an agnostic - I am a straight woman and I disagree with the CC’s teaching on gay marriage. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that she may disagree so strongly she chose to walk away.

I do think your assumptions of her motivations are off, though. She can disagree without being being secretly a lesbian or “worshipping gay people”.
 
MP_Kid said:
Why would a straight married woman care so much about the church not accepting gay marriage?
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Simple - because she thinks it’s unfair to gay people.I
MP_Kid said:
Do you think she is secretly a lesbian?
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A person can absolutely support what they consider to be a group’s rights without being a member of that group.
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Or does she worship gay people and wants?
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I’ve never heard of anyone “worshipping gay people and wants.”.
 
What the bible actually says: Romans: 24-32

“Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts[o] for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips 30 and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. 31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
 
She may have a close gay friend or relative that she has not discussed with you. For all you know, one of her kids is gay, or her brother is gay, or her best friend is gay, etc.

Or she may just have other issues with the church, and the gay thing is an excuse.
 
She left because she belonged to a religion, but didn’t have faith.

She’s rejecting religion and probably will never have faith unless she goes to Jesus and ask for the gift of faith.

Of course this will require that she surrenders herself, i.e. all of her ideas and beliefs, and accept Jesus will completely.

Most likely won’t happen as such people are afraid of the sacrifice it might involve.

Jim
 
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Do you think she is secretly a lesbian?
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While this is technically possible, I somehow doubt it, and it is kind of weird that you would jump to that conclusion if the woman has not given any indication that she is gay. Plenty of us are not gay, not of color, not immigrant, not Muslim etc. but have strong feelings about those issues.
 
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Of course this will require that she surrenders herself, i.e. all of her ideas and beliefs, and accept Jesus will completely.
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She may very well see herself as surrendering to Jesus’ will while believing that the Church is somehow not carrying out Jesus’ will.
This is how several of the mainline Protestant groups schismed.
 
Maybe, but I would be careful because some people might start acting up.
 
Going to go with “empathy”. That isn’t to say those in the church lack empathy, they just empathize differently. But it shouldn’t be difficult to put yourself in her shoes and at least understand where she’s coming from. I’m sure there’s groups of people you don’t belong to but also don’t want to see spoken of or treated poorly.
 
The Catholic Church does not treat gays poorly. They just have a stance on what we think is right and wrong.
 
Do you see straight people leaving the church because we say that premarital sex is wrong or using condoms is wrong? No. You do not.
 
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Or does she worship gay people?
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You seriously think this is a possibility?
 
You never know. People worship celebrities, animals, and other things.
 
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