Contents:
- IN ITALY, GAY PRITS COME OUT VIA LETTER DECRYG HOMOPHOBIA THE CHURCH; AND MORE NEWS
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- BLSG GAY UNNS
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND WON’T REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE BUT WILL ALLOW CERTA CEREMONI
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- GAY MARRIAGE: REIMAGG CHURCH HISTORY
IN ITALY, GAY PRITS COME OUT VIA LETTER DECRYG HOMOPHOBIA THE CHURCH; AND MORE NEWS
Fifty gay prits Italy broke their silence and me out publicly, cricizg a culture of homophobia semari, church documents, and the clergy which, they wre, “silence appears as the only way of survival. “We nnot speak openly about our homosexual orientatn wh our fay, iends; much ls wh other prits or mted lay people.
COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
They cricize the Vatin stctn barrg gay men om beg admted to semary, wrg:. The prits nmn fellow gay clergy who “ph to the outsi the nflict they rry wh” by beg among the most “homophobic” of church lears.
” Sullivan pots to nsistently risg support for gay people, cludg for equal marriage rights. Layck, who leans nservative on LGBTQ+ rights, lled the RMA “a mol for further legislatn” and “important breakthrough” as is a promise regnizg that any “legislative progrs on gay rights requir rrpondg protectns for relig liberty.
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh relign.Shelly Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. “Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” the pope said an terview wh The Associated Prs on Jan. Francis’ long history of makg siar ments support of LGBTQ people’s digny, spe the church’s rejectn of homosexualy, has provoked plenty of cricism om some Catholics.
BLSG GAY UNNS
Durg the first year of Francis’ papacy, when asked about LGBTQ people, he famoly replied, “If someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? In his recent terview, the pope said the church should oppose laws that crimalize homosexualy. The Catholic Church has nmned discrimatn agast LGBTQ people for many years, even while scrib homosexual acts as “trsilly disorred” s techism.
Neverthels, some bishops around the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy – which Francis acknowledged, sayg they “have to have a procs of nversn. In 2018, for example, German bishops reactg to the legalizatn of gay marriage acknowledged that acceptance of LGBTQ relatnships is a new “polil realy.
It’s not clear yet if she will do Your Se ArticlJudge: No Relig Exce for Catholic School's Antigay Discrimatn ›Parents Raise Thoands For Catholic Teacher Fired Bee She's Gay ›Indiana Supreme Court Okays Catholic School Firg of Gay Teacher ›Catholic School District Remov LGBTQ+ Rourc ›Teachers Oted From Catholic School Say Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias to Blame ›School Defi Catholic Church Orr to Fire Teacher Same-Sex Unn ›Stunts Demand Return of Guidance Counselor Fired for Beg a Lbian ›Outraged by the Catholic Church Firg LGBTQ People? As a nsequence, Ain Anglins – still dwellg, seems, the heart of relig darkns, and not posssg the nate English gift for muddlg through – are not yet persuad of the goodns of homosexualy or of the Christian legimacy of blsg same-sex unns.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND WON’T REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE BUT WILL ALLOW CERTA CEREMONI
Will Ain Catholic bishops, after chastisg the Germans or Fernánz, issue a siar statement regardg Cardal McElroy of San Diego, who has recently lled to qutn the ancient Christian ia that homosexual terurse is mortally sful, tellg that we 21st-century Catholics know much more about homosexualy than did ancient moral teachers (e. “Liberal” or “progrsive” Catholic circl have for some years now phed to loosen up the ancient l ncerng sexual nduct, pecially homosexual nduct. There are two reasons, I suggt, for this liberal foc on homosexualy.
For one, we feel a natural human sympathy for Catholics who, perhaps through no flt of their own, have a fixed homosexual orientatn, yet are told by their relign – our relign – that they mt live whout sexual affectn and pannship.
For another, sce Catholicism has always regard homosexualy as a particularly extreme sexual s – a s that is not merely an offense agast God but an offense agast our animal nature self – once you give the green light to homosexualy you will also have to give to other sexual ss, e.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Once you give your approval to the blsg of homosexual unns, you will next, at least if you are logil (which humans sometim are), have to allow prits to bls premaral sexual unns and adultero unns. What idcy this is – this bendg of the ancient l regardg homosexualy! Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.
Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.
“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
In the US, where some 61% of Catholics approve of gay marriage, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center, LGBTQ Catholic groups reacted wh disappotment and anger, if not surprise. The Vatin’s directive – that people wh “homosexual clatns” n be blsed, but only if they agree not to have sex – isn’t cuttg wh most US Catholics. ” when asked about how he would treat a homosexual person nfsn?
Didn’t he tell sex abe survivor Juan Carlos Cz that “ don’t matter that you are gay. We are not opposed to same-sex “marriage” bee we hate homosexuals. The official teachg of the Catholic Church says homosexual persons “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn and sensivy.
GAY MARRIAGE: REIMAGG CHURCH HISTORY
However, when to same-sex “marriage, ” we are alg not only wh the qutn of homosexualy per se, but also of the Catholic sacraments.
Those who disagree mt therefore try to unrstand Catholic beliefs bee the Catholic transigence on the subject of same-sex “marriage” is not so much about homosexualy, but about the very foundatn and re of the Catholic fah. This don’t mean that we hate homosexuals, Mlims, Mormons, Epispalians or atheists.
We acknowledge that homosexual people may love one another. “I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time.