'Why do the Catholic Church hate gay people?'

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• ‘WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?’ BOSTON BISHOP SEEKS TO LISTEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE
• 'MOST-HATED,' ANTI-GAY PREACHER ONCE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
• 'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'
• “WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH RAIS FEARS OVER PRO-GAY PROTTANT CHURCH
• CHRIS PRATT CLAPS BACK AT ACCATNS THAT HIS CHURCH HAT GAY PEOPLE: “NOTHG COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TTH”
• DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?
• MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

Typified by s slogan, “God Hat F---, ” WBC is known for s harsh anti-gay beliefs and the c signs s members rry at their equent protts. " Acrdg to the group, Ameri has damned self through s tolerance of homosexualy, and God is punishg the untry by flictg tragedi on s cizens.

In Febary 2009, the group planned to travel to Bra to prott a stagg of "The Laramie Project, " a highly rpected play that documents the hate murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard and how the cint impacted the muny. People gather at a June 14 ndlelight vigil Manila, Philipp, memory of the victims of the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla.

‘WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?’ BOSTON BISHOP SEEKS TO LISTEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

He tri to imprs upon young people that the church is “not prejudiced” agast gay people but do not shy away om the church’s teachg on marriage.

'MOST-HATED,' ANTI-GAY PREACHER ONCE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

But officially, the church still bans gay men om enterg semari, though how that le is enforced vari om dce to dce, and sexual relatns between people of the same genr are nsired sful.

Sce gay marriage was legalized natnwi 2015, there has been a rash of firgs of church workers bee of issu related to there is the issue of language self, which has ed turmoil between some L. (CNN) -- He is the lear of "Ameri's most hated fay, " a gnt, craggy-faced preacher who displays "God Hat Fags" signs at the funerals of Amerin troops, gay men and AIDS victims.

'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'

Ben Stt, print of the NAACP's Topeka branch, says he never heard Phelps talk about homosexuals durg his work as a civil rights attorney. The fay plans to vis Atlanta, Geia, startg Wednday for two days of protts, cludg one at a Jewish muny center and a playhoe stagg a productn honor of Shepard, the sla gay llege stunt. Sce I emphatilly do not thk that the Catholic Church hat anybody, I thk a better qutn is, "Why do the Catholic Church seem to hate gay people?

What I thk people ually mean by sayg the Catholic Church "hat" is that the Church disagre wh those who approve of homosexual behavur. It is te that there is tremendo social prsure to normalize homosexual relatnships today, and the Church has not yield to that prsure. What I thk people ually mean by sayg the Catholic Church "hat" is that the Church "disagre" wh those who approve of homosexual behavur.

“WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”

From the Catholic pot of view, when we do not nsent to the normalizatn of homosexualy, is not hateful but actually lovg — acrdg to how we see the world. When we grasp this difference, do not mean that our views of homosexualy change, but n help see the other si a more rpectful light. In fact, our highly secular age, today would be much easier simply to nform to the wispread acceptance, even celebratn, of the homosexual liftyle.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH RAIS FEARS OVER PRO-GAY PROTTANT CHURCH

Sce I thk that the Catholic Church don’t hate anybody, a better qutn is, “Why do the Catholic Church seem (to some) to hate gay people?

In our highly secular age, would be much easier simply to nform to the wispread acceptance, even celebratn, of the homosexual life.

CHRIS PRATT CLAPS BACK AT ACCATNS THAT HIS CHURCH HAT GAY PEOPLE: “NOTHG COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TTH”

Patriarch Kirill of Mosw and All Rsia has told the head of the World Council of Church of his ncerns over the posn of some Prottant Church towards homosexualy. Acrdg to the WCC, Kirill exprsed a “ser ncern” about some of the challeng facg ecumenil dialogue view of what he termed the “new posns of some Prottant church” on several important moral issu, cludg their unrstandg of homosexualy.

The Epispal Church the USA particular has pursued a liberal agenda the last , nsecratg s first openly gay bishop 2003 and nsecratg s first partnered lbian bishop this year. Gay mori Rsia claim they are beg unfairly targeted after a law was signed last week that seeks to punish anyone "makg public actns among mors for the propaganda of homosexualy, lbianism, bisexualy or transgenrism (LGBT), " and which the Orthodox Church supports.

A 2010 poll by the pennt Levada Center Mosw found that 74 percent of Rsian cizens regard homosexualy as a rult of bad moral choic, or thk of as a "disease, " while only 15 percent scribe as jt another sexual orientatn that "has the same right to existence" as heterosexual, anyone emed to be fluencg mors to be more acceptg of homosexualy fac up to a $16, 000 fe, after St.

DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?

"The termatn displayed by reprentativ of sexual mori and their sire to ntue rallyg outsi children's tablishments dite the timels of this regnal law, which should, whout lay, be given feral stat, " clared Hieromonk Dmri Persh, the Orthodox Church's reprentative on youth surprisgly, the new legislatn has been firmly opposed by Rsian LGBT groups, who say the law is signed to validate wispread public hostily toward gay people, and will seek to undo any civil rights progrs that had occurred the untry over the last few years.

MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW

Nikolai Alexeyev, nsired Rsia's most outspoken gay rights activist, warned that he would lnch a prott mpaign to get the law repealed. At the same time, is likely the law will make even more difficult for gay pri paras and monstratns to be staged Rsian ci that impose this law, as such gathergs are already banned on a regular officials sisted, however, that the primary purpose behd the law is to protect youths om beg fluenced by the homosexual liftyle. "The propaganda of [homosexual liftyl] should not take place where mors n feel s fluence; the same is te about heterosexual lechery….

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