I’m ex-gay. Fr. Jam Mart’s LGBT affirmatn perverts the Gospel, enslav souls s - LifeSe

Contents:

• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'
• FATHER JAM MART: GAY PRI COMPATIBLE WH SACRED HEART OF J
• FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE
• I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S
• JU PRIT STANDS UP FOR GAY CATHOLICS, THEN FAC BACKLASH

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

And a different vio, the pro-gay prit has said gog to a gay weddg is no worse than gog to a Jewish weddg, referrg to as "a different tradn, " addg that refg to attend a gay weddg is "very surprisg to me. Father Mart was speakg to a homosexual person who said he was planng his "weddg" and whose liftyle had prevly been opposed by his parents but who now plans on walkg him down the aisle. Both secular and tablishment Catholic media me to his fense, cludg The New York Tim, which published an article wh the headle "Ju Prit Stands Up for Gay Catholics, Then Fac Backlash.

" The Mother Church of the Plist Fathers, Sat Pl the Apostle New York Cy, has a notor gay mistry lled Out at Sat Pl. Do God posively will that some people posss and act upon homosexual sir as their natural, rrectly orred sexualy? Father, when you tweeted “Pri Month” greetgs to your “LGBTQ iends, ” urgg them to be “proud” of their “God-given digny” and “gifts” and their “place the world, ” did you mean to suate that homosexualy is a gift om God and th somethg to embrace?

In fact, prohibg homosexual acts (as the Church do) would be immoral, bee would prevent people om beg who God ma them to be and dog what God wants them to do. Then would make sense to advote for the -stigmatizatn of homosexualy and to enurage those wh SSA to fully actualize their attractns as a liftyle. This uld expla your nsistent support for Catholic gay mistri that affirm homosexual activy while ignorg or throwg sha on those that don’t.

THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'

It would also provi ntext for your reference to homosexualy as “a lovg act, a form of love… that I have to reverence. If you thk that homosexualy is not a nature given by God, do not have a sexual exprsn that is moral and orred to a person’s happs, then the only other optn is that is unnatural, that s sexual exprsns are immoral, and that, however mixed wh real iendship or real virtu may be any given suatn, ’s ultimately orred away om happs.

In which se, don’t sayg that gay people are born that way, and sistg on g the gay-affirmative language that people wh SSA “e for themselv, ” have the effect of affirmg people what will make them unhappy?

So when you refer to a man and “his hband” and their child; when you are chronilly silent on the legal movements to refe marriage and fay spe your fluential Catholic profile on the issue; when we do the math and realize that endorsg same-sex marriage is the only logil end pot of endorsg homosexualy as God-given and natural—’s only fair to wonr whether you assent to this teachg. That would jibe wh, for example, your stated wish to a gay man that “ ten years you will be able to kiss your partner… soon to be your hband” church.

FATHER JAM MART: GAY PRI COMPATIBLE WH SACRED HEART OF J

Is the full package: nmnatn of homosexual acts as disorred and trsilly immoral, affirmatn that our sexual faculti are orred toward maral love between a man and a woman, a basic biblil anthropology of sexual difference and plementary, and so on?

This would make sense of your claim that “for a teachg to be really thorative is expected that will be received by the people of God, ” but that Catholic teachg on homosexualy hasn’t been “received” by the “LGBT muny.

Or maybe you’re holdg on to a mental rervatn which the “Church teachg” to which you claim assent is actually what you thk Church teachg should be, or what you thk ’s gog to be—once the Church fally sheds all s old homophobic hangups. Bee when you say that you “will not challenge” Church teachg on homosexualy and even lay out that teachg imprsive tail, most people n figure out that this isn’t the same as sayg you agree wh , that you endorse and promote , and that you aren’t subtly— ways that don’t rise to the level of a “challenge”—workg to change . Pulse was a predomantly LGBT venue, an example of what’s always been te: For the margalized LGBT muny, the gay bar was a place of acceptance.

FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW

Rather than buildg a bridge, to them, he is tearg down one that leads to the te Catholic public profile has also ma him a target of what he’s dubbed the “Catholic alt-right, ” who anize social mpaigns agast him, prott his sermons, and amplify their own view that is “homohery” to suggt that the church wele LGBT Catholic Church seems to be at an existential crossroads when to the LGBT 2013, Pope Francis suggted a movement toward acceptance wh his famo “Who am I to judge? It is their souls, their moral pass, and their ia of official Vatin stance is that homosexualy is “objectively disorred, ” though the techism preach agast vlence. In one heartbreakg segment, she talks about how loved Christopher was, how proudly out he was as a gay man, and shows the cloth he was wearg the night he was killed: a t-shirt and jeans wh bullet hol through them.

Her experience grievg him and the other queer people who were murred that night, she says, gave her a new sight to the nversatn surroundg homosexualy and the Catholic Church. “I loved my son, but broke my heart to know there was one kid whose fay wouldn’t e to get him bee he was gay, bee they believed that was what Catholicism tght them, ” she says. In fact, you see that everywhere Father Mart are people, ey wet wh tears, sharg stori about how Buildg a Bridge and Mart’s talks have helped them e around to acceptance of their own gay relativ.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

There are out gay Catholics who see a path back to the church bee of ’s eply emotnal bee the feelgs—that range om shame and hatred to speratn and even hope—have such ep roots.

So ep that many never imaged that even the foundatn to build a bridge might be, pecially if you’re a gay person who me through the Catholic Church, there are other plitns to grapple wh.

RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE

Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit. He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay? While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit.

"Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light.

I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S

We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay.

"He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar. " "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said.

JU PRIT STANDS UP FOR GAY CATHOLICS, THEN FAC BACKLASH

""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there. He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti. "It's important to note: the prits "Sunday Morng" spoke wh, as well as the Vatin self, see no nnectn between homosexualy and the cleril sexual abe crisis.

A five-year study by New York's John Jay College, missned by bishops, found "the data do not support a fdg that homosexual inty is a risk factor for the sexual abe of mors. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s. Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga.