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. 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.
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N’T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE MUNN
” 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. ” ment––ma rponse to a qutn about the acceptabily of gay men as prits––his statement is not official church teachg.
Today, many men’s relig orrs and some bishops often make their own cisns regardg gay men as ndidat for the semary and prithood. The Catholic Church has not ma any chang to doctre ncerng LGBTQ people, and acrdg to s techism, homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred. On Father’s Day (June 19), Alex Shgleton and Landon Duyka, a civilly married gay uple wh two dghters, stood before ngregants at Old Sat Patrick’s Church the Archdce of Chigo to read a reflectn on the hoy.
“In all honty, if you had told as young boys who wasted untls hours of our liv church tryg to ‘pray the gay away’ that we someday would be standg ont of all of you our Catholic Church talkg about our fay on Father’s Day, we would never have believed you, ” they said their reflectn. Yet, spe the welg signals, the Vatin’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued a statement March 2021 banng the blsg of gay upl, cg the ncern that fahful might nsir such unns equivalent to marriage between a man and a woman and statg that the Catholic Church “nnot bls s. Jt weeks after the ban, German prits, open fiance, blsed numero gay upl hundreds of ceremoni around the untry.