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Contents:

• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• WHOOPI GOLDBERG CLAIMS DESANTIS DISLIK ‘PEOPLE OF LOR,’ ‘GAY FOLKS’
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAY MEN AND AGG

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

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SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

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ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

(CNS photo/Pl Harg)Sce Buildg a Bridge, a book on misterg to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholics, was published, I have been asked—at Catholic parish, retreat centers, lleg and universi and nferenc—a few qutns that recur over and over. The most mon are: “What n we say to gay people who believe that God hat them? ” And “What n we say to gay or lbian Catholics who feel that their own church has rejected them?

”Another mon qutn is about the church’s official teachg on homosexualy, homosexual activy and same-sex marriage. Buildg a Bridge tentnally steered clear of issu of sexual moraly, sce I hoped to foster dialogue by focg on areas of possible monaly; and the church hierarchy and the majory of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholics rema far apart on the issu. As an asi, sce the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a pendium of church teachg on var topics, do not addrs bisexual or transgenr persons but rather “homosexual persons, ” I’ll refer here to gay and lbian people to be more teachg at the most basic level is ntaed the Gospels and, even more basilly, the revelatn of the Father’s love J Christ.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG CLAIMS DESANTIS DISLIK ‘PEOPLE OF LOR,’ ‘GAY FOLKS’

So the most fundamental of all church teachgs about gay and lbian people is this: God lov them. Moreover, his public mistry J ntually reached out to those who felt ignored, exclud or margalized, which many gay and lbian Catholics do.

In fact, gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Catholics are probably the most margalized group the church today, and so I believe that Christ lov them wh a special to gays and lbians, then, the Gospel valu of love, mercy and passn are the buildg blocks of all church that end, ’s important to state that the ey of the church simply beg gay or lbian is not a s—ntrary to wispread belief, even among ted Catholics. Regularly I am asked qutns like, “Isn’t a s to be gay? Nowhere the techism do say that simply beg homosexual is a s.

As any reputable psychologist or psychiatrists will agree, people do not choose to be born wh any particular sexual when most people ask qutns about “church teachg” they are referrg not to this qutn, but to rtrictns on homosexual, or same-sex, activy as well as the prohibn on same-sex marriage.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Homosexual acts are, acrdg to the techism, “trsilly disorred” and “ntrary to natural law. ” (The bulk of the techism’s attentn to homosexualy is ntaed Nos. ) Consequently, the homosexual orientatn (and by extensn, any orientatn other than heterosexualy) is regard as “objectively disorred.

Consequently, acrdg to the tradnal terpretatn of natural law, homosexual acts are not orred toward those specific ends and so they are emed “disorred.

GAY MEN AND AGG

Consequent to that, the homosexual orientatn self is viewed as an “objective disorr” sce n lead to “disorred” we need to make clear that the phrase “objective disorr” do not refer to the person himself or herself but to the orientatn. Moreover, do not tract om the herent digny of any human beg, sce God creat all human begs equal and leads to the church’s official teachg on chasty for “homosexual persons. ” Sce homosexual activy is not approved, the person may not engage any sort of sexual activy: “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty.

)The Catechism of the Catholic Church also stat that gays and lbians n and should approach “Christian perfectn” through chasty, wh such supports as “the virtu of self-mastery that teach them ner eedom, at tim by the support of disterted iendship, by prayer and sacramental grace. ” In other words, gays and lbians, the techism stat, n live holy liv. Perhaps mdful of the specialized philosophil and theologil language, the church teach that “every sign of unjt discrimatn” agast gays and lbians (aga, here “homosexual persons”) mt be avoid, and gays and lbians mt be treated wh the virtu of “rpect, passn and sensivy.

” In my experience, this is the sectn of the techism’s teachg on homosexualy that is the least known by most the techism, his recent apostolic exhortatn “Amoris Laetia, ” Pope Francis ma three pots related to the issue of homosexualy. That is one reason that ’s important for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people to unrstand the church’s teachg s totaly—the Gospels, the tradn of natural law and s roots Thomistic and Aristotelian reasong, the techism, “Amoris Laetia” and other documents— their sire to bee good Buildg a Bridge mentns, is important for the stutnal church to unrstand the lived experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholics. When I worked wh Lato teenage boys as a clician and unselor, I enuntered que a b of homophobia.