‘The love of homosexuals is somethg good’: German Catholics to bls gay unns, fyg Vatin ban | Ameri Magaze

Contents:

• DOZENS OF GERMAN PRITS WILL FY THE VATIN AND LIVE-STREAM BLSGS OF GAY UPL
• ‘THE LOVE OF HOMOSEXUALS IS SOMETHG GOOD’: GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS, FYG VATIN BAN
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED
• GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS SPE VATIN BAN
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

DOZENS OF GERMAN PRITS WILL FY THE VATIN AND LIVE-STREAM BLSGS OF GAY UPL

Catholicism also had seen the largt loss of followers of any relig tradn the untry, Pew said he was llege when he realized he was gay, and one of the first dozen or so people he me out to was the pastor of the Catholic church he attend near the Indiana Universy mp Bloomgton. ‘The church is the church’He worri that the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah’s stance agast same-sex marriage and s language that is sometim disrpectful of LGBTQ people may drive away younger believers forever, whether bee they are LGBTQ or solidary wh Luis Zarama of the Catholic Dce of Raleigh said the statement om Rome may have been disappotg to some bee they saw the welg way Pope Francis relat to people as dividuals and heard him endorse civil unns for same-sex upl and built “false expectatns” that he also would support gay marriage.

‘THE LOVE OF HOMOSEXUALS IS SOMETHG GOOD’: GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS, FYG VATIN BAN

Randy Lewis, chairman of the board of directors for the LGBT Center of Raleigh, was ordaed as a Baptist mister but left the church for a time bee he’s gay. However, to receive this gift, we mt reject s, cludg homosexual behavr—that is, acts tend to aroe or stimulate a sexual rponse regardg a person of the same sex.

People tempted by homosexual sir, like people tempted by improper heterosexual sir, are not sng until they act upon those sir some manner. Durg the night, the men of Sodom mand that Lot hand over his guts for homosexual terurse. Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have regnized that one of the chief ss volved God’s stctn of Sodom was s people’s homosexual behavr.

But today, certa homosexual activists promote the ia that the s of Sodom was merely a lack of hospaly. Although hospaly is a s, is clearly the homosexual behavr of the Sodom that is sgled out for special cricism the acunt of their cy’s stctn.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED

Lot even offered his two virg dghters place of his guts, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferrg homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen.

To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg. Confirmg this fact is the New Ttament’s forceful rejectn of homosexual behavr as well. In Romans 1, Pl attribut the homosexual sir of some to a refal to acknowledge and worship God.

Elsewhere Pl aga warns that homosexual behavr is one of the ss that will prive one of heaven: “Do you not know that the wicked will not her the kgdom of God? Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God” (1 Cor. Th, people have the rrpondg tun ncerng homosexualy that they do about btialy—that is wrong bee is unnatural.

GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS SPE VATIN BAN

Many homosexuals argue that they have not chosen their ndn, but that they were born that way, makg homosexual behavr natural for them. Jt as one n acquire alholic sir (by repeatedly beg toxited) whout nscly choosg them, so one may acquire homosexual sir (by engagg homosexual fantasi or behavr) whout nscly choosg them.

Even if there is a geic predisposn toward homosexualy (and studi on this pot are nclive), the behavr remas unnatural bee homosexualy is still not part of the natural sign of humany.

Homosexual activists often jtify homosexualy by claimg that ten percent of the populatn is homosexual, meang that is a mon and th acceptable behavr. But not all mon behavrs are acceptable, and even if ten percent of the populatn were born homosexual, this would prove nothg. If those sir manift themselv a homosexual fashn ten percent of the populatn, all that do is give rmatn about the mographics of origal s.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Furthermore, the ten percent figure clus people who are not exclively homosexual but who only engaged  some homosexual behavr for a perd of time and then stopped—people who had gone through a fully or partially homosexual “phase” but who were not long-term homosexuals. Recent and more scientifilly accurate studi have shown that only around one to two percent of the populatn is homosexual.

Those opposed to homosexual behavr are often charged wh “homophobia”—that they hold the posn they do bee they are “aaid” of homosexuals. Sometim the charge is even ma that the same people are perhaps homosexuals themselv and are overpensatg to hi this fact, even om themselv, by nmng other homosexuals.

CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN

Like siar attempts to avoid ratnal discsn of an issue, the homophobia argument pletely miss the pot. Even if a person were aaid of homosexuals, that would not dimish his arguments agast their behavr.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

The vast majory of those who oppose homosexual behavr are no way “aaid” of homosexuals. One n disagree wh somethg whout fearg , and the attempt to shut down ratnal discsn by cryg “homophobe! The morn arguments favor of homosexualy have th been sufficient to overe the evince that homosexual behavr is agast dive and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wir circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mentn Mlim) wrers, have always held.

“Basg self on sacred Scripture, which prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred.