The Orthodox Church’s role Rsia’s anti-gay laws | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• THE GAY CHURCH
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• BRETHREN MENNONE COUNCILA NONPROF GROUP MTED TO PROVIDG MUTUAL SUPPORT FOR FAI WH GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND TERSEX MEMBERS. THIS CLUS LGBTQ PEOPLE, FAI AND ALLI, TO WORSHIP, TE, AND PROVI MUTUAL SUPPORT.
• THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

THE GAY CHURCH

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GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

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FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

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BRETHREN MENNONE COUNCILA NONPROF GROUP MTED TO PROVIDG MUTUAL SUPPORT FOR FAI WH GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND TERSEX MEMBERS. THIS CLUS LGBTQ PEOPLE, FAI AND ALLI, TO WORSHIP, TE, AND PROVI MUTUAL SUPPORT.

- A gay-posive mistry of advocy and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Catholics, and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni.

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THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

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. 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. In the Uned Stat, however, where there are 37, 000 prits, no pennt study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent. A church that, sce 2005, bans prits wh “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and officially teach that gay men are “objectively disorred” and herently disposed toward “trsic moral evil” is actually posed, ways very few other stutns are, of gay men.

The llapse of the closet public and private life the past three s has ma the disproportnate homosexualy of the Catholic prithood much ls easy to hi, ignore, or ny.