What Should a Gay Catholic Do? | Ameri Magaze

Contents:

• WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• I'M LIVG PROOF YOU CAN BE CATHOLIC AND SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??

WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?

Scripture and the Church’s magisterium otherwise teach that homosexual sex—whether between two men or two women—is an trsic moral evil, let alone attemptg to publicly sanctn such a relatnship. And the Church distguish between same-sex attractn (SSA) and homosexual acts (see CCC 2357-59). The obv lack of bodily plementary illtrat that one need not voke God to make a pellg argument agast homosexual sex.

" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. " The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

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.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

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. (iStock)Here's a real pastoral qutn to nsir: What place is there for the gay person the Catholic church? C., that would pull out of social servic the cy rather than acce to a bill that would afford benefs to same-sex spo, a qutn, too long neglected, aris for the whole church: What is a gay Catholic supposed to do life?

If you accept the church's teachg on celibacy for gays, and feel a ll to enter a semary or relig orr, you nnot--even if you sire the celibate life. If you work for the church any sort of official pacy is close to impossible to be open about who your inty as a gay man or a lbian. A gay layman I know who serv an important role a dce (and even wr some of his bishop's statements on social jtice) has a solid theologil tn and sir to serve the church, but fds impossible to be open the face of the bishop's repeated disparagg remarks about gays.

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

Officially at least, the gay Catholic seems set up to lead a lonely, lovels, secretive life. Social nservativ are not only ncerned about marriage, but also the rise of a gay and lbian culture.

Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1.

What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.

I'M LIVG PROOF YOU CAN BE CATHOLIC AND SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians.

In every class, for the past 20 odd years, I have ved a gay former stunt, Lee FzGerald, to speak on gay relatnships. My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny. The attus of Santa Clara stunts have evolved signifintly the last two s vis à vis gay and lbian relatnships.

My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

A person is born gay and lbian and grows up this way; is not a matter of cisn, one possibily among others for the mature dividual. G., Anglinism: re of blsg New Wtmster, Canada; nsecratn of Gene Robson as an openly gay bishop.

MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??

"Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially. Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend.