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THE “GAY” CHURCH WH THE CHURCH: CATHOLICISM AND THE OPEN ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY
“The most mon human rpons to a new moment, or somethg that do not f neatly to one of our dualistic tegori such as male or female, gay or straight, are mistst, cynicism, fear, knee-jerk reactns, a spir of dismissal, and overridg judgmentalism. In fact, I have gone so far as to say, if J never talked about once, the church will tend to be preoccupied wh (abortn, birth ntrol, and homosexualy are current exampl), and if J ma an unequivol statement about (for example, the rich, the mel, and the eye of a needle), we tend to quietly shelve and fet .
The arguments of the anti-gay folks are often well tentned, but their goals and objectiv seem to be different om those of J…We nnot expect J’ simplicy of tentn to nvert so quickly, pecially when he has had mimal succs wh the areas of greed vlence, e of power, and love of enemi where he is absolutely forthright and hardly able to be misterpreted.