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Contents:
- WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
- INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
- LIVG S? HOW GAY CATHOLICS MANAGE THEIR CONFLICTG SEXUAL AND RELIG INTI
- GAY AND CATHOLIC - ACCEPTG MY SEXUALY, FDG COMMUNY, LIVG MY FAH
- WHAT A GAY, CATHOLIC MAN IS DOG TO HELP THE L.G.B.T. MUNY
- WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND CATHOLIC? AN TERVIEW WH EVE TH
- MY JOURNEY AS A CELIBATE GAY CATHOLIC
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
Our hope is that, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church. * gay in catholic faith *
The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred.
INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
* gay in catholic faith *
The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr.
LIVG S? HOW GAY CATHOLICS MANAGE THEIR CONFLICTG SEXUAL AND RELIG INTI
"There is a future for dividual gay people the Catholic Church that don’t require reprsn, or self-hatred, or beg totally alone." * gay in catholic faith *
A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture. To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg.
Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God” (1 Cor. Jt as one n acquire alholic sir (by repeatedly beg toxited) whout nscly choosg them, so one may acquire homosexual sir (by engagg homosexual fantasi or behavr) whout nscly choosg them.
Furthermore, the ten percent figure clus people who are not exclively homosexual but who only engaged some homosexual behavr for a perd of time and then stopped—people who had gone through a fully or partially homosexual “phase” but who were not long-term homosexuals.
GAY AND CATHOLIC - ACCEPTG MY SEXUALY, FDG COMMUNY, LIVG MY FAH
The morn arguments favor of homosexualy have th been sufficient to overe the evince that homosexual behavr is agast dive and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wir circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mentn Mlim) wrers, have always held.
The iative began part bee a iend poted out that my work foc on helpg queer adults rtore a relatnship wh God that has too often been damaged by the silenc and falsehoods that make gay people feel like outsirs wh their if, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church? I have spoken wh orthodox Catholics who say they would not put their own children Catholic schools or who have left Catholic tn part bee of anti-gay I learned rrponds wh what I heard om my panns durg the retreat weekend. D., released an pecially strgent policy 2022 that bars stunts om “advot[g], celebrat[g], or exprs[g] same-sex attractn” or “transgenrism” “ such a way as to e nfn or distractn” and urg the e of the term same-sex attractn all circumstanc, as opposed to more lloquial terms like gay.
WHAT A GAY, CATHOLIC MAN IS DOG TO HELP THE L.G.B.T. MUNY
Archdce of Denver’s policy, released 2022, urg teachers to nont “genr iology” whenever possible, bars “gay-straight allianc”and requir schools to tell parents if a stunt “beg[s] to assert an inty at odds wh their blogil sex, ” which would out young people to parents whout regard for the child’s reasons for g out only to peers or tsted mentors. This was a theme among several nversatns wh my terviewe: Silence about gay life don’t keep people out of emotnal entanglements, jt mak harr for queer young people to navigate their iendships.
WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND CATHOLIC? AN TERVIEW WH EVE TH
In the Catholic muni which she grew up, she was tght a “basele msage that homosexual acts were sful, ” but even that was only brought up “briefly and tentatively when you had a chasty talk. ’” Even though she wasn’t out of the closet, she had heard of other gay stunts who were expelled and was “always lookg over my shoulr for whether I would get lled to the office or kicked out.
MY JOURNEY AS A CELIBATE GAY CATHOLIC
They want stunts to know that gay Catholics exist, both bee the stori n illumate our fah and bee gay stunts should never feel that they have to choose between their fah and their inty. Several people referred to the Catechism of the Catholic Church as the bt source, whether or not they accepted Catholic want stunts to know that gay Catholics exist, both bee the stori n illumate our fah and bee gay stunts should never feel that they have to choose between their fah and their Catholics I spoke wh want a church that is not aaid of qutns—and not aaid to learn om gay cultur while guidg gay people to eper flourishg.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
The regivg provid by gay people durg the AIDS epimic ma clear, she said, that “queer muny [is] a radil refal to dispose of anyone, ” addg, “Regardls of your posn on gay sex, there is a lot to learn” om queer muni about how to live real Catholics also want schools to re-exame their assumptns around genr difference and what lsons stunts might benef om.