There is no way to say sorry for dark days gay men endured Ireland before 1993
Contents:
- A STATE APOLOGY TO GAY MEN? NO THANKS
- DUTERTE ON LLG GOLDBERG GAY: WHY SHOULD I APOLOGIZE?
- POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE
A STATE APOLOGY TO GAY MEN? NO THANKS
* it was gay why should i have to apologize *
But was gay! I want to beg by echog that I, too, am very sorry for the genue mistreatment of those dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, pecially by those who claim to be followers of Christ.
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.
The practice of homosexual behavr is not at the top of Pl’s list. I apologize for Christians who e terms like “straight Christian, ” “straight Church, ” and “gay Christian. ’” Th a Prottant iend, riffg on Pope Francis’s ment that Christians should apologize to homosexual people for the way Christians have treated iend is vexed by Francis.
DUTERTE ON LLG GOLDBERG GAY: WHY SHOULD I APOLOGIZE?
He was pecially annoyed bee, as he put later the nversatn, “I suppose I rent the suggtn that all Christians hate gays and have hurt gays, full stop. ”Seen on Facebook were starker rpons to Francis’s words, some of them perfectly unrstandable, to the effect that the wrer wasn’t gog to apologize to homosexual people bee they should apologize to him or to Christians general. It’s the work of to read:translatg the pope’s remarks on apologizg to gay munyAs Catholics we’re stuckBut.
That’s what J wants, and I thk that’s all Francis was sayg when he told to ask our homosexual iends’ (and several other groups’) fivens for not havg treated them as we, as Catholics, should have treated them. It’s what we ask of others, this radil unfortable ask our homosexual brethren, and our divorced brethren whout annulments, to ny themselv somethg almost everyone else n have: a marriage, two people formg a haven a heartls world, wh someone they actively sire, wh all the pleasur of romance that sexual sire brgs.
POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE
When I read recently that the State plans to apologise to gay men who were nvicted of engagg same-sex sexual activy, my ial rponse was surprisgly one of anger. Senator Ged Nash has mpaigned for the official apology to ci wh the 25th anniversary of crimalisatn of the homosexual act 1993. I was 27 and livg London when I heard about the Government’s cisn to crimalise gay men Ireland.
I endured hatred every day of my young life for simply beg the person I was, beg te to myselfThis had stilled the fear of God me as I watched most of my gay iends die. Who is gog to apologise for the loss of the man I was love wh, who took his own life at the age of 21 havg been forced to a relatnship wh a woman bee he knew his father would be ashamed to have a gay son?
Post-crimalisatnA hundred thoand apologi uld never erase the ep and profound pa I still feel when I thk of those dark days as a gay man livg Ireland prr to 1993. There was a notable change attus after crimalisatn om mastream society as people almost felt that they had permissn to accept gay people for who they have spoken about the 2015 marriage equaly referendum rult as a new begng for gay people Ireland as we had fally been given our right to be treated equally Irish society. Organisatns such as the Gay and Lbian Equaly Network disband wh the feelg of a job well I have often felt that the referendum rult was an attempt by society at large Ireland to make amends for how people like me had been treated the past.