“God Ma me Gay for a Reason”: Young Men who have Sex wh Men’s Riliency Rolvg Internalized Homophobia om Relig Sourc - PMC

Contents:

• 'IF I GROW UP TO BE GAY, WILL I GO TO HELL?'
• ‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
• BEG GAY DON’T MEAN YOU’LL END UP HELL, AT LEAST ACRDG TO CATHOLICISM.FLORENCE MCDERMOTT·FOLLOW3 M READ·AUG 10, 2020--LISTENSHAREYOU’VE HEARD BEFORE: BEG GAY MEANS YOU GO TO HELL. ETERNAL DAMNATN. ALL THAT JUICY STUFF. BUT IS THAT REALLY THE SE?TO REALLY BREAK DOWN THIS QUTN WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT CATHOLICS NSIR “DAMNABLE SS” OR, AS THEY’RE REFERRED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, ‘MORTAL SS’.THE SS ARE SAID TO SEVER YOUR NNECTN WH GOD UNLS YOU REPENT FOR YOUR SS. EXAMPL OF THE CLU MURR, RAPE, THEFT, ETC ETC. THERE ARE 3 FG FACTORS TO WHAT MAK A S A MORTAL ONE.THE SUBJECT MATTER MT BE ‘GRAVE’, I’LL TOUCH MORE ON THIS A BIT MT BE MTED KNOWG THAT ’S A S AND HOW BAD OF A S IS.IT MT BE MTED WH LIBERATE AND PLETE NSENT.THE ARE FED THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (CCC) , SENTIALLY A DOCTRE MANUAL TO CATHOLICISM WRTEN BY POPE JOHN II. AND WHILE POPE JOHN II WAS AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THE TEACHGS ARE THERE AND STILL TGHT TODAY AND N BE HELD UP TE FOR ANY SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HE GO ON TO DISCS WHAT MAK A MATTER GRAVE, AND THOUGH THERE’S NO ABSOLUTELY CLEAR FN, A C FN WOULD BE ‘S FED BY THE 10 MANDMENTS’. FOR FURTHER READG ON THE, SEE PART 3, SECTN 1, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 8.4 OF THE CCC.ON THE FLIP SI OF THIS, WE SEE VENIAL SS, WHICH ARE SEEN AS “LSER” AND DON’T SEND YOU TO HELL OR MAKE YOU LOSE YOUR NNECTN, RATHER THE ARE UNRSTOOD TO BE ABLE TO LEAD YOU TO M MORTAL SS, AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH WOULD BE SWEARG.FURTHER TO THE CCC, WE SEE THAT SAT JOHN DISCS HOW WHEN NSIRG RPONSIBILY OF SS THE EY OF GOD, ‘ONE MT TAKE TO ACUNT THE AFFECTIVE IMMATURY, FORCE OF ACQUIRED HAB, NDNS OF ANXIETY OR OTHER PSYCHOLOGIL OR SOCIAL FACTORS THAT LSEN, IF NOT EVEN RCE TO A MIMUM, MORAL CULPABILY.’THIS VERSE IS TERTG, AND HAS AN IMPACT ON HOW ONE LOOKS AT THE WILL AND TENT OF SO LLED ‘SEXUAL SS’. PASSNS AND THE STATE OF MD N GREATLY DIMISH, IF NOT ABSOLVE THE AFOREMENTNED SNER OF CULPABILY, LEAVG THE S AS NOT MORTAL, BUT A VENIAL S OF GRAVE MATTER.IF THEY ACCEPT THE LORD AND HAVE GOODWILL, WHO AM I TO JUDGE THEM? THEY SHOULDN’T BE MARGALIZED. THE TENNCY IS NOT THE PROBLEM... THEY’RE OUR BROTHERS.—POPE FRANCIS, 2013ARMED WH THIS KNOWLEDGE, WE N BEG TO DISCS HOMOSEXUALY. GENERAL BELIEFS, SUPPORTED BY SCIENCE OR NOT, HELD BY THOLICS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TEND TO FALL TO 3 TEGORI:IT’S A MENTAL DISORRIT’S SOMETHG YOU’RE BORN WHIT’S SOMETHG YOU VELOPSCIENCE OBVLY SUPPORTS THE LATTER, HOWEVER THIS ISN’T OM THE EY OF SCIENCE THIS IS THE EY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.THOUGH THE ALL APPEAR DIFFERENT, THE NTEXT OF SNG, THEY N ALL BE EXPLAED THE SAME WAY WH A KEY, DISTCT FACT.HOMOSEXUALY IS NOT A CHOICE.
• THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER
• “GOD MA ME GAY FOR A REASON”: YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S RILIENCY ROLVG INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OM RELIG SOURC
• GAY PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HELL, SAYS EXPERT WNS IN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL
• DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?

'IF I GROW UP TO BE GAY, WILL I GO TO HELL?'

Children hear about Israel Fol's homophobic ments, and they have Pl HeyHer qutn is doubly shockg given she has two gay uncl, we speak openly about homosexualy our fay, and her father and I uld not re ls about the genr of the people she choos to love.

‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’

Growg up I was obliv to the impact that our homophobic muny, Brisbane the ‘80s and early ‘90s, had on my iend’s self homophobic jok, the “fag” pranks such as boys verg school books wh the word “fag”, and, y, people thory clarg that hell awas him, have all ntributed to McCulloch feelg ashamed, unacceptable and unlovable for his entire life.

BEG GAY DON’T MEAN YOU’LL END UP HELL, AT LEAST ACRDG TO CATHOLICISM.FLORENCE MCDERMOTT·FOLLOW3 M READ·AUG 10, 2020--LISTENSHAREYOU’VE HEARD BEFORE: BEG GAY MEANS YOU GO TO HELL. ETERNAL DAMNATN. ALL THAT JUICY STUFF. BUT IS THAT REALLY THE SE?TO REALLY BREAK DOWN THIS QUTN WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT CATHOLICS NSIR “DAMNABLE SS” OR, AS THEY’RE REFERRED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, ‘MORTAL SS’.THE SS ARE SAID TO SEVER YOUR NNECTN WH GOD UNLS YOU REPENT FOR YOUR SS. EXAMPL OF THE CLU MURR, RAPE, THEFT, ETC ETC. THERE ARE 3 FG FACTORS TO WHAT MAK A S A MORTAL ONE.THE SUBJECT MATTER MT BE ‘GRAVE’, I’LL TOUCH MORE ON THIS A BIT MT BE MTED KNOWG THAT ’S A S AND HOW BAD OF A S IS.IT MT BE MTED WH LIBERATE AND PLETE NSENT.THE ARE FED THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (CCC) , SENTIALLY A DOCTRE MANUAL TO CATHOLICISM WRTEN BY POPE JOHN II. AND WHILE POPE JOHN II WAS AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THE TEACHGS ARE THERE AND STILL TGHT TODAY AND N BE HELD UP TE FOR ANY SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HE GO ON TO DISCS WHAT MAK A MATTER GRAVE, AND THOUGH THERE’S NO ABSOLUTELY CLEAR FN, A C FN WOULD BE ‘S FED BY THE 10 MANDMENTS’. FOR FURTHER READG ON THE, SEE PART 3, SECTN 1, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 8.4 OF THE CCC.ON THE FLIP SI OF THIS, WE SEE VENIAL SS, WHICH ARE SEEN AS “LSER” AND DON’T SEND YOU TO HELL OR MAKE YOU LOSE YOUR NNECTN, RATHER THE ARE UNRSTOOD TO BE ABLE TO LEAD YOU TO M MORTAL SS, AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH WOULD BE SWEARG.FURTHER TO THE CCC, WE SEE THAT SAT JOHN DISCS HOW WHEN NSIRG RPONSIBILY OF SS THE EY OF GOD, ‘ONE MT TAKE TO ACUNT THE AFFECTIVE IMMATURY, FORCE OF ACQUIRED HAB, NDNS OF ANXIETY OR OTHER PSYCHOLOGIL OR SOCIAL FACTORS THAT LSEN, IF NOT EVEN RCE TO A MIMUM, MORAL CULPABILY.’THIS VERSE IS TERTG, AND HAS AN IMPACT ON HOW ONE LOOKS AT THE WILL AND TENT OF SO LLED ‘SEXUAL SS’. PASSNS AND THE STATE OF MD N GREATLY DIMISH, IF NOT ABSOLVE THE AFOREMENTNED SNER OF CULPABILY, LEAVG THE S AS NOT MORTAL, BUT A VENIAL S OF GRAVE MATTER.IF THEY ACCEPT THE LORD AND HAVE GOODWILL, WHO AM I TO JUDGE THEM? THEY SHOULDN’T BE MARGALIZED. THE TENNCY IS NOT THE PROBLEM... THEY’RE OUR BROTHERS.—POPE FRANCIS, 2013ARMED WH THIS KNOWLEDGE, WE N BEG TO DISCS HOMOSEXUALY. GENERAL BELIEFS, SUPPORTED BY SCIENCE OR NOT, HELD BY THOLICS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TEND TO FALL TO 3 TEGORI:IT’S A MENTAL DISORRIT’S SOMETHG YOU’RE BORN WHIT’S SOMETHG YOU VELOPSCIENCE OBVLY SUPPORTS THE LATTER, HOWEVER THIS ISN’T OM THE EY OF SCIENCE THIS IS THE EY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.THOUGH THE ALL APPEAR DIFFERENT, THE NTEXT OF SNG, THEY N ALL BE EXPLAED THE SAME WAY WH A KEY, DISTCT FACT.HOMOSEXUALY IS NOT A CHOICE.

They experience poorer mental health out than their peers as a direct rult of the stigma, prejudice, discrimatn and abe they experience jt for beg, who last week lnched a crowdfundg mpaign aimg to raise $3 ln to ver his legal bills his appeal agast his ntract termatn by Rugby Atralia (which was shut down on Monday morng), fend his homophobic post as “an act of love and passn” have no ia of the effect that the msag have on the people they are I thk of how my iend has suffered om homophobia his whole life, and all the boys and girls, past and prent, who will be eply wound and trmatised by Fol’s words, is unfathomable how anyone uld ever jtify them as lovg or ’s not unmon to e ancient texts to provi jtifitn for hatred, but if Fol wants to play the bible rd, let’s talk about what else he uld do wh $3 ln stead of fendg his right to tell already vulnerable and margalised people that hell awas them. I uldn't stop lookg out the wdow, " he statn was Malaysia, bee tourist visas are ee on life as a Somali asylum seeker Malaysia is tough - and there too homosexualy is most asylum seekers live limbo for years before beg regnised as a refugee, Mohamed's se was fast-tracked and he has been accepted for rettlement.

THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER

General beliefs, supported by science or not, held by tholics about homosexualy tend to fall to 3 tegori:It’s a mental disorrIt’s somethg you’re born whIt’s somethg you velopScience obvly supports the latter, however this isn’t om the ey of science this is the ey of the Catholic the all appear different, the ntext of sng, they n all be explaed the same way wh a key, distct fact.

“GOD MA ME GAY FOR A REASON”: YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S RILIENCY ROLVG INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OM RELIG SOURC

Therefore we n nclu that is nsired a passn, a s of passn if you will, which the ey of the Catholic Church, leads the sner to be lsened by the burn of their already venial while Homosexualy self is not a s, the Catholic Church is far om progrsive, but is takg steps the right directn.

GAY PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HELL, SAYS EXPERT WNS IN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL

Keywords: relign, spirualy, gay, young men who have sex wh men, ternalized homophobiaThere has been a growg body of rearch foced on the relatnship between religsy and adolcent health and well-beg (Nonnemaker, McNeely, & Blum, 2003; Werner & Smh, 1992). Given the unique velopmental stage of adolcence and emergg adulthood and the fact that most religns across the globe offer teachgs that nmn or rtrict homosexual behavr, is particularly important to unrstand YMSM’s experienc and challeng as they stggle to tegrate their sexual inty wh their relig/spirual beliefs.

Rearch among olr populatns of MSM and other lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults dite that religsy n ntribute to inty dissonance between sexual sir and relig beliefs for sexual mory dividuals, which n be rolved by changg religns, reexamg relig texts and doctre, abandong relign, or turng to a more dividualized sense of spirualy (Leong, 2006; Schuck & Liddle, 2001; Thumms, 1991; Yip, 1997, 2005).

DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?

Mory Strs and Internalized HomophobiaInternalized homophobia, also referred to as ternalized heterosexism (Szymanski & Chung, 2003) or sexual prejudice (Herek, 2004), n be fed as directg anti-gay social attus towards the self, leadg to a valuatn of the self, ternal nflicts and poor self-regard (Meyer & Dean, 1998). Internalized homophobia has also been lked to substance abe, lower levels of self teem and eatg disorrs among both gay and lbian populatns (Cabaj, 1996; Ross & Simon Rosser, 1996; Rowen & Mallm, 2002; Williamson & Hartley, 1998). Followg on this work, Ream (2001) found that trsic religsy was not herently a risk factor for ternalized homophobia among sexual mory youth; rather, the homophobic msag often prent relig views and livered a relig ntext tend to predict ternalized homophobia.