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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.
In some Native Amerin cultur, a homosexual person was often the shaman, or medice man, of the muny bee he bed both the mascule and the feme quali one person…This is very hard for the Wtern dualistic md to procs…Same-sex love is not gog away bee dualistic Wtern civilizatn or church do not like or are unwillg to al wh . Heterosexual men need to acknowledge and honor the experience of their homosexual brothers…Even J was fortable wh another man placg his head on his cht, and the Gospel wrers were not aaid to say that, nor was the “beloved disciple” aaid to brag about . And today, we are all livg wh the ramifitns; durg a recent terview wh Cardal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, he had this to say about a homosexual iend who recently entered to a so-lled “stable” gay relatnship:“It’s an improvement.
The unimagable ignorance and fool-heartedns of this theory has recently been shown to be d; acrdg to one study: “nearly 70% of HIV+ MSM (men who have sex wh men) are timated to have ntracted HIV om a ma partner;”* yet, the damage through distortn has been done: a 2014 Pew Rearch poll of Catholics aged 18-29, fully 85% said that homosexualy should be accepted by society.