It shouldn't seem so surprisg when the pope says beg gay 'isn't a crime' – a Catholic theologian explas

Contents:

• 'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'
• “WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”
• DO CHRISTIANS HATE GAY PEOPLE?

'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'

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. 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.

“WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”

In fact, our highly secular age, today would be much easier simply to nform to the wispread acceptance, even celebratn, of the homosexual liftyle. OBJECTOR: I’m straight, but I have a lot of gay iends, and they tell me that Christians look down on them as if they are not worthy of human rpect.

But if we lim our discsn to the Church’s official teachgs about homosexualy, I thk I n tthfully say that the Catholic Church do not hate gays nor nmn homosexualy. OBJECTOR: Then how e the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexual acts are “acts of grave pravy” (CCC 2357)?

But wh gay behavr, we’re talkg about somethg so sential to a person’s self-inty that you really n’t make that distctn. But homosexual acts are sful bee they vlate at least one of the two prcipl we glean om a natural analysis—namely, that the acts should be procreative.

DO CHRISTIANS HATE GAY PEOPLE?

In fact, I would offer this analysis: As a culture, we have e to see homosexual acts as legimate only bee we first separated the sex act om procreatn through a ntraceptive mentaly. I only want you to unrstand that our cultural separatn of sex and procreatn has been the groundwork for makg homosexual acts appear legimate. 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.