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Contents:
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- BLSG GAY UNNS
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
A proment liberal rdal who leads a body reprentg European bishops has lled for "fundamental revisn" Catholic teachg on homosexualy, and said is wrong to fire Church workers for beg gay. * catholic gay teaching *
Catholic wrer Marc Barn has stated this view wh particular force and nsistency, rejectg not only the e of “homosexual” but also of “heterosexual”: “It is by the urgg of the Catholic Church that I refe, reject, and trample on the label heterosexual. But the claim that the Catholic Church sists that we mt “refe, reject, and trample on” the discsn of sexualy a given set of terms”as “heterosexual” or “homosexual””sorely mistak Catholic teachg.
The standard support offered for this argument is om the 1986 document Homosexualatis Problema: “Today, the Church provis a badly need ntext for the re of the human person when she ref to nsir the person as a “heterosexual” or a “homosexual” and sists that every person has a fundamental Inty: the creature of God, and by grace, his child and heir to eternal life. The most basic problem is that the argument is based on a mistranslatn; the relevant text of the Lat reads, “cum renu persona unice nsirare ratnem ‘heterosexualem’ vel ‘homosexualem’”(emphasis add). The document do not pos an absolute divi between scribg a person as heterosexual or homosexual, and regnizg that the most fundamental tth that n be told about them is that they are of God.
COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
To say that we mt pletely drop the tegory of homosexual orientatn favor of the tegory of human person, risks implyg that one thks the tegory of “homosexual” or “gay” patible wh the tegory of “human person. Ined, the very tle monly ed for Homosexualatis Problema ”“Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons””shows that far om nmng the term “homosexual, ” the Church even self.
The absurdy of the notn that this would ntradict scribg onelf as gay should be clear; the scriptn of onelf as gay or homosexual patently pruppos the acceptance that one has a bodily inty as male or female, and that one’s relatn to others is mediated through his or her bodily inty as male or female. It is not enough for a person to regnize that he is gay or straight; the nclns, which his experience brgs to him about his sexualy, are taken as data, but they are sendary data. 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.
LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
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. 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. 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 Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.
The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage. In the wake of Pope Francis’ recent ment about same-sex civil unns, Pew Rearch Center nducted this analysis to better unrstand what Catholics around the world thk about legal regnn for same-sex upl and homosexualy general. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.
In Eastern Europe, acceptance was weaker, wh roughly half or fewer of Catholics sayg that homosexualy should be accepted by society Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Lhuania. The Catholic Church teach that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” and lls on gay people to practice “chasty, ” though also lls on Catholics to treat gay men and women wh “rpect, passn and sensivy. VATICAN CITY, Feb 3 (Rters) - A proment liberal rdal who leads a body reprentg European bishops has lled for "fundamental revisn" Catholic teachg on homosexualy, and said is wrong to fire Church workers for beg remarks by Luxembourg Cardal Jean-Cl Hollerich to the German Catholic news agency KNA were among the most direct lls ever by a Roman Catholic lear for change teachg on one of the most ntroversial issu the Church today.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Hollerich is print of the pan-European groupg of Catholic bishops' nferenc, known as the KNA terview, Hollerich was asked for his asssment of a mpaign which about 125 Catholic Church employe Germany, cludg some prits, me out as LGBTQ, and about the Church's teachgs on homosexualy. "I believe that the soclogil-scientific foundatn of this teachg is no longer te, " he said terview that was published on Tuday another part Hollerich said: "I thk 's time we make a fundamental revisn of the doctre" Roman Catholic Church teach that same-sex attractn is not a s, but homosexual acts are.
Francis has said that while the Church nnot accept same-sex marriage, n support civil unn laws aimed at givg gay partners jot rights areas of pensns, health re and has sent not of appreciatn to prits and nuns who mister to gay Catholics and said parents of gay children should never nmn them, but unr his watch the Vatin has also said prits nnot not bls same-sex December, a Vatin partment raised nservative ire when apologised for "g pa to the entire LGBTQ muny" by removg om s webse a lk to rource material om a Catholic gay rights advocy group preparatn for a Vatin meetg 2023. 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. 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.
BLSG GAY UNNS
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.
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. 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.
“A distctn is drawn, and seems wh some reason, between homosexuals whose tenncy…is transory or at least not curable; and homosexuals who are fively such bee of some kd of nate stct… In the pastoral field, the homosexuals mt certaly be treated wh unrstandg and staed the hope of overg their personal difficulti and their abily to f to society. Unlike some other Christian groups at the time (and ntug today, unfortunately), when the Catholic Church regnized that homosexual people were, to borrow a phrase om a morn pop song, “born this way, ” they did not say that a person was sful bee of this part of their personaly. Third, the Vatin was llg for pastoral re for lbian and gay people, not to “change” them or punish them, but to help them bee more tegrated their personal and social liv, prumably bee of the tense rejectn and ostracizatn that lbian and gay people experienced almost everywhere at the time.