Contents:
- “WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N’T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE MUNN
“WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”
The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn.
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N’T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE MUNN
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred. ” While the Catholic Church do not nsir “homosexual orientatn” sful and of self, do have a very negative attu toward .
The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr. The Catechism further stat that “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty. ” The Vatin’s polici, however, state that those wh “homosexual tennci...
A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.