Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• 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
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• CATHOLICS AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Friday’s Supreme Court cisn to legalize gay marriage across the untry prents an tertg moment for Catholics the U. The church oppos gay marriage, and this likely won’t change even unr Pope Francis the Troublemaker. But we also mt acknowledge that this moment is a great joy for many Catholics—gay and straight.

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

I take my fah’s teachg on every issue—cludg gay marriage—serly, but I, too, n’t help but feel joy for my LGBT iends who celebrated Friday’s cisn. “No issue brgs out so much hatred om so many Catholics as homosexualy, ” Mart wrote a Facebook post Friday. We n put to rt the great lie that everyone who oppos gay marriage is a bigot and that everyone who supports is a bad Catholic.

No matter what one thks about gay marriage, we all n rema mted to strengtheng fay life agast some of s greatt threats: an enomy that kills, environmental exploatn, dictatorships of relativism, nsumerism, superficialy, and difference. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns.

He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say. I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life.

And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?

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

I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri. And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle.

In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children. And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay.

CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE

" 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.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED

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.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

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Wh so many optns for gay Christians, why stick wh the Catholic church? When I beme Catholic 1998, as a llege sophomore, I didn't know any other gay Christians.

CATHOLICS AND GAY MARRIAGE?

I'd been raised a kd of potillist Reform Judaism, almost entirely protected om homophobia; when I realized I was gay was, if anythg, a relief. This sheltered upbrgg may help expla my sunny unrgraduate nfince that even though I knew of lerally nobody else who had ever tried to be both unashamedly gay and obediently Catholic, I was totally gog to do .

PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

I hope I've learned a few thgs about the dangers of sophomoric self-nfince: There are tim when my relatnship wh the Catholic Church feels a lot like Margaret Atwood's feroc ltle poem, You f to me like a hook to an eyea fish hook an open eyeAnd I've met many other gay or queer or same-sex-attracted Christians, all flavors of Christiany.