I have heard a lot about how mean the Church is, and how bigoted, bee she oppos gay marriage. How badly she misunrstands gay people, and how...
Contents:
- GAY, CATHOLIC, AND DOG FE
- WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
- “GAY, CATHOLIC AND DOG FE”
- WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- WHAT A GAY, CATHOLIC MAN IS DOG TO HELP THE L.G.B.T. MUNY
- [TWO PRONGED] GAY, CATHOLIC, AND FEELG GUILTY
- U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
- GAY CATHOLIC AND DOG FE
GAY, CATHOLIC, AND DOG FE
More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed. Rourc were srce for a man stgglg wh homosexualy and tryg to rema fahful to the Church’s teachg. * gay catholic and doing just fine *
This blog by Steve Gershom, a Catholic, gay, young man, was origally published on the blog, Ltle Catholic Bubble. I have heard a lot about how mean the Church is, and how bigoted, bee she oppos gay marriage. Said when I told him recently about my homosexualy, “I gus if wasn’t that, would have been somethg else.
WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
Here s a real pastoral qutn to nsir What place nbsp is there for nbsp the gay person the Catholic church nbsp Wh the warng om the archdce of Washgton D C that would pull out of social servic the cy rather than acce to a bill that would afford benefs to same * gay catholic and doing just fine *
Actually, the only time I get shock or disgt or disbelief, the only time I’ve noticed people treatg me differently after I tell them, is when I tell someone who supports the gay liftyle. I’m grateful to gay activists for some thgs — makg people people more aware of the prevalence of homosexualy, makg homophobia ls socially acceptable — but they also make more difficult for me to be unrstood, to be accepted for who I am and what I believe.
“GAY, CATHOLIC AND DOG FE”
The Vatin's directive banng the blsg of same-sex unns has sparked fiance among some prits Europe and left bishops perplexed on how to mister to gay Catholics. * gay catholic and doing just fine *
So the Church don’t oppose gay marriage bee ’s wrong; she oppos bee ’s impossible, jt as impossible as livg on sand. So, y, ’s hard to be gay and Catholic — ’s hard to be anythg and Catholic — bee I don’t always get to do what I want.
More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed.
WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
Rourc were srce for a man stgglg wh homosexualy and tryg to rema fahful to the Church's teachg. Google the words "gay Catholic" and one of the top s to appear will be Prever's own blog, a blog wh the tagle: "Catholic, Gay, and Feelg Fe.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
What follows is an eded versn of a nversatn about everythg om homosexualy and Batman to poetry and football. The blog is about what 's like to be a gay Catholic – a gay Catholic who is of urse, celibate – and I say 'of urse' bee that seems to me like the only optn if you're gog to be both gay and Catholic.
WHAT A GAY, CATHOLIC MAN IS DOG TO HELP THE L.G.B.T. MUNY
My iends and I joke that there's a gay Catholic renaissance on, or actually a gay Christian renaissance on, and we're proud to be at the foreont of – or at least we tell ourselv that we're at the foreont.
[TWO PRONGED] GAY, CATHOLIC, AND FEELG GUILTY
It was hard the sense that I'd actually always said that people shouldn't be public about beg gay, bee was not anybody's bs and I felt that would lend legimacy to this ia that beg gay is a sort of a sgle way to intify yourself: I actually still sort of hold that posn – kd of.
U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
It's hard to scribe: I don't thk that beg gay is as sential of a way to intify yourself as say, beg male is, or beg Catholic, or beg human.
Your blog hear is, 'Catholic, Gay, and Feelg Fe, ' and you've been g the word 'gay' throughout our nversatn so far. ' I ed to joke that the only reason I ed the word 'gay' was so that I would tend to show up more on Google, which is only partially a joke, bee you know if you're gog to e the tools of technology to evangelize, then you have to be savvy about what Google is gog to fd and what isn't. But I gus the shift maly happened as I began to approach beg more public about , bee as I beme more public I also me to ntact more openly wh people who intified as gay or who stggled wh same-sex attractn, or whatever.
And what I found was that a lot of them had a lot of rentment towards people who sisted on not g the word gay.
GAY CATHOLIC AND DOG FE
And fact, I rarely feel strongly about whether I should e the word gay or not, but the one time I do feel strongly about is when somebody starts upbraidg me for . It's the sort of thg where people feel, and I thk rightly, that they have been nstraed to keep silent for most of their liv – and a lot of people have, whether 's nstraed by actual explic homophobia among the people that they love and/or are related to, or whether 's jt sort of a general culture unrstandg that you don't talk about this sort of thg.