The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism.
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
The Archdcan Gay and Lbian Outreach of Chigo, AGLOChigo, is a lay anizatn of the Roman Catholic Church. Jo for Mass every Sunday at 7 pm. * gay catholic organization *
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New Ways Mistri - 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. Through rearch, publitn and tn about homosexualy, we foster dialogue among groups and dividuals, intify and bat personal and stctural homophobia, work for chang attus and promote the acceptance of LGBT people as full and equal members of church and society.
LGBTQ Jtice - Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Catholics and their alli are prent all parts of our Church and should be valued and celebrated as members of the lorful fay of God. Digny USA - DignyUSA works for rpect and jtice for people of all sexual orientatns, genrs, and genr inti—pecially gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr persons— the Catholic Church and the world through tn, advocy, and support. Metropolan Communy Church of New York provis a spirual home for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny and for all who choose to jo through the practicg of the gospel of J Christ worship, prayer, social actn, tn, and fellowship so that all people might experience God’s liberatg love, wholens, and jtice; e to live right relatnship wh God and all creatn; and have the urage to change the world.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Followg the risen Christ, and seekg to make the Church a te muny of hospaly, the missn of More Light Prbyterians is to work for the full participatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people the life, mistry and wns of the Prbyterian Church (USA) and society.
Seventh-day Adventist Kship Internatnal provis a safe spirual and social muny to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr & tersex current and former Seventh-day Adventists around the world. The Open and Affirmg Coaln of the Uned Church of Christ advot for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny the UCC, and equips UCC ngregatns to bee effective wns to Christ’s extravagant wele. Human Rights Campaign - HRC is the largt Civil Rights Organizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins, the Human Rights Campaign reprents a force of more than 1.
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FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- Believg that baptism empowers all persons to live a full, Catholic life unn wh all members of the Church, the Catholic Mistry wh Lbian and Gay Persons provis a safe and welg environment for lbian and gay persons, their iends and fay, through lurgy, outreach, tn, and fellowship. - DignyUSA works for rpect and jtice for people of all sexual orientatns, genrs, and genr inti—pecially gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr persons— the Catholic Church and the world through tn, advocy, and support. - Equally Blsed is a aln of four Catholic anizatns that have spent more than 120 years workg on behalf of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and their fai.
- 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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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.
- Found 2001, the Gay Christian Network (GCN) is a nonprof Christian mistry dited to buildg bridg and offerg support for those ught the crossfire of one of today’s most divisive culture wars. What began as an anizatn to provi support to LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) Christians has grown to a worldwi movement for passn wh many straight members as well.
Review: New Book Tells of Gay Man’s Journey Towards Prithood and BeyondAugt 3, 2023William Glenn’s “I Came Here Seekg a Person: A Val Story of Grace; One Gay Man’s Spirual Journey” is both timely and valuable for s long perspective, verg a perd of time om before Stonewall to today. 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.
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.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
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.
This cultural and moral shift has not only changed the nscns of most Amerin Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for gay upl) and gay prits (many of whom are close to qutg) but also broken the silence that long shroud the subject. Alarmed by the possibily that divorced and remarried people might be weled as well as gays, tradnalists lnched a fierce rearguard mpaign agast the new papacy, wh a foc on what some lled a “Lavenr Mafia” nng the church, and broke new ground nnectg this directly to the horrifyg revelatns of sex abe that me to light 2002. In creasgly direct ways, they have argued that the root of the sndal was not abe of power, or pedophilia, or clerilism, or the distortive psychologil effects of celibacy and stutnal homophobia, but gayns self.