Fr Jam Mart and the Gay Nativy | Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Contents:

• THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'
• I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S
• “GAY” PRITS? AN OPEN LETTER TO FR. JAM MART
• FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW
• FR JAM MART AND THE GAY NATIVY
• FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT

THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'

Do God posively will that some people posss and act upon homosexual sir as their natural, rrectly orred sexualy? Father, when you tweeted “Pri Month” greetgs to your “LGBTQ iends, ” urgg them to be “proud” of their “God-given digny” and “gifts” and their “place the world, ” did you mean to suate that homosexualy is a gift om God and th somethg to embrace? In fact, prohibg homosexual acts (as the Church do) would be immoral, bee would prevent people om beg who God ma them to be and dog what God wants them to do.

Then would make sense to advote for the -stigmatizatn of homosexualy and to enurage those wh SSA to fully actualize their attractns as a liftyle. This uld expla your nsistent support for Catholic gay mistri that affirm homosexual activy while ignorg or throwg sha on those that don’t. It would also provi ntext for your reference to homosexualy as “a lovg act, a form of love… that I have to reverence.

If you thk that homosexualy is not a nature given by God, do not have a sexual exprsn that is moral and orred to a person’s happs, then the only other optn is that is unnatural, that s sexual exprsns are immoral, and that, however mixed wh real iendship or real virtu may be any given suatn, ’s ultimately orred away om happs. In which se, don’t sayg that gay people are born that way, and sistg on g the gay-affirmative language that people wh SSA “e for themselv, ” have the effect of affirmg people what will make them unhappy?

I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S

So when you refer to a man and “his hband” and their child; when you are chronilly silent on the legal movements to refe marriage and fay spe your fluential Catholic profile on the issue; when we do the math and realize that endorsg same-sex marriage is the only logil end pot of endorsg homosexualy as God-given and natural—’s only fair to wonr whether you assent to this teachg. That would jibe wh, for example, your stated wish to a gay man that “ ten years you will be able to kiss your partner… soon to be your hband” church. Mart, when you claim that you assent to Catholic teachg on homosexualy, what are you specifilly thkg of?

“GAY” PRITS? AN OPEN LETTER TO FR. JAM MART

Is the full package: nmnatn of homosexual acts as disorred and trsilly immoral, affirmatn that our sexual faculti are orred toward maral love between a man and a woman, a basic biblil anthropology of sexual difference and plementary, and so on?

This would make sense of your claim that “for a teachg to be really thorative is expected that will be received by the people of God, ” but that Catholic teachg on homosexualy hasn’t been “received” by the “LGBT muny.

Or maybe you’re holdg on to a mental rervatn which the “Church teachg” to which you claim assent is actually what you thk Church teachg should be, or what you thk ’s gog to be—once the Church fally sheds all s old homophobic hangups. Bee when you say that you “will not challenge” Church teachg on homosexualy and even lay out that teachg imprsive tail, most people n figure out that this isn’t the same as sayg you agree wh , that you endorse and promote , and that you aren’t subtly— ways that don’t rise to the level of a “challenge”—workg to change . Mart posted a vio jtifyg Catholics’ celebratg gay pri month June, the same month the Church dit to the Sacred Heart of J.

FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW

"In that sense, any vatn to celebrate pri day, march or pri month is led out for Catholics bee all of them are part of the effort to remove the state of s om the practice of homosexual tennci or other siar or related tennci.

FR JAM MART AND THE GAY NATIVY

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teach that homosexuals “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn and sensivy. Tradn has always clared that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” and “do not proceed om a genue affective and sexual plementary. “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty” and through “the support of disterted iendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they n and should gradually and rolutely approach Christian perfectn.

One of Mart’s admirers — or perhaps, enablers — is Pope Francis, who granted his fellow Ju a very public ‘private dience, ’ October, lendg him the ra of papal approval regardg his missn to normalize homosexualy and transgenrism wh the Roman Catholic Church. Curly, the loust voic the public square soundg the alarm about Mart tend to be men who formerly lived as ‘gay, ’ such as Joseph Sciambra, Michael Voris, myself, and others. One wonrs: How had the so-lled rights to abortn and to homosexual “marriage” elud the natn’s brightt legal mds for centuri, until a few jtic fally ‘disvered’ the “rights” hidn the shadows of the U.

He has disvered what he believ is Christian affirmatn for homosexualy and transgenrism emanatg om the Bible and the Catechism, which no doctor of the Church or sat was wise or bright enough to tect – until Mart me along. “Church teachg on LGBT people is a great al more than jt a few l the techism that al wh homosexualy, ” said Mart the vio. “One reason I don’t foc on [chasty] is bee every LGBT Catholic I’ve ever met, every member of their fay, and pretty much every Catholic, already knows Church teachg on celibacy and chasty when to homosexualy, ” claimed Mart.

FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT

He wants the Church to affirm the same-sex attracted as “gay” and “lbian” and the genr dysphoric as “trans men” and “trans women, ” place of their te inty as children of God. So if 's a legimate crique or a thoughtful qutn, I'll answer , but if 's jt hatred, or homophobia, then I ignore . Parts of the film foc on Michael Voris, founr of the ultranservative, anti-gay Catholic group Church Milant, who says the film that he once intified as gay.

I thk too often, we tend to say church teachg equals the three l the techism about LGBTQ people or about homosexuals. He pots out that the church’s teachg on homosexualy is more nuanced and expansive than the few l about sexual exprsn that are often plucked om the Catechism.

Even though this homophobic perspective exists, Father Mart remd LGBT Catholics that “they are as much a part of the church as the pope, their lol bishop or me” bee of the sacrament of baptism. Father Mart also mentned that nearly all Catholics, cludg LGBT Catholics are faiar wh the church’s teachg on celibacy and chasty as relat to homosexualy. Father Mart’s LGBT mistry provis a theologil amework through which we n work to create a harmon, clive, and lovg space for LGBTQ persons, bat homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry all s forms.