Wh so many optns for gay Christians, why stick wh the Catholic church?
Contents:
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
- I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
* can gay people go to church *
" The Roman Catholic Church has long held that beg gay isn't a s but that beg a gay relatnship or havg gay sex is. They also n’t serve as wns at Catholic baptisms or, the guidance says, gay and transgenr people n participate such sacraments if they repent.
For gay, lbian, bisexual and queer people, that would mean endg same-sex relatnships, and for trans people, would mean livg as the sex they were assigned at birth, although the guidance says trans people who have unrgone "physil chang to the body" aren’t required to reverse, acrdance wh Catholic doctre, the guidance says children of same-sex married upl n be baptized if they are raised the Catholic fah and tght that same-sex marriage go agast the church's teachgs. ’”Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignyUSA, which advot for LGBTQ rights the Catholic Church, said the guidance is part of a larger trend of dc’ "makg statements that look like they're tryg to be helpful to gay, queer and transgenr people but that are really dog harm to the spirual, emotnal and physil health of our muny and to fai.
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I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
Register Rachel for Vatn Bible School and then hand the uple Marantha Bible's statement of fah, cludg the part on human sexualy where homosexual behavr is nmned. Along wh a scere wele, tragilly, too many tim fear of disease (HIV/AIDS), public nmnatn, homophobia, and prsure for behavr change through unproven and often harmful therapi overwhelmed any sense of wele. Would J go to a gay pri para?
Would J attend a gay marriage ceremony si a church? Would J enter a gay bar? Y—J would go a gay bar, or for that matter, the lol Sunday champagne bnch, if the Matt and Alex ved him.
It is a scere act of Christian hospaly to wele gays and lbians when they e to our church as well as engage them the plac they meet. Another example: Peter Ould, an Anglin pastor and blogger Canterbury, England, scrib himself as "postgay.
CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
Now a hband and father, Ould, wrg God, Gays, and the Church, says his mistry is to help church disver how "to rpond wh passn and re to those whose sexualy is broken.... "We have several people our church who practice a homosexual liftyle.
• They watch their language and won't put up wh people monizg or homophobic slurs. I was simply lookg to be actively volved and bee a member of the church… Bee I was gay, that was sufficient for [them] to turn around and say no.
But all of a sudn, ‘Oh, but now you say you’re gay, you n’t do that any more’. Recent rearch strongly suggts that LGBT people who ntue to intify as Christian experience heightened “homonegativy” – negative and shame-filled feelgs about their sexualy – pared to non-relig, or even formerly Christian, LGBT people.