If your church's doctrine says homosexuality is a sin, but your DC is gay

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your son must live a chaste life; this is a burden but his suffering is a special offering.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Unfortunately, Leviticus 18:22 is alive and well and, unfortunately, many Christians want to close their eyes to this sad fact.

You don't even need to go to Levitical law to justify this. God's law is self evident at creation when he made Adam and Eve.

A lot of people who have acquired disordered passions have to (or should, rather) deny themselves. It's not some horrific suffering unique to homosexuality, sorry folks. Love your kid, but you have to be on God's side.

Yuck. You are an awful person.

Life is short. Love is love.

See this is the difference between you and Christians. We believe that life is eternal and that while short, mortality is a time of faith and testing, not a time to "make hay while the sun shines." We are asked to use our time on earth to become more like Jesus Christ every day. That means loving people who break God's commandments, while still expecting ourselves and others to keep them. We also believe that God gave us commandments to maximize our happiness on an eternal horizon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please people. Mc Carrick openly engaged in homosexual behavior for what, 70 years? Do we need to list out the sexual predators of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church over the past 100 years? The reply field isn't big enough to paste the lists put out by State Attorney Generals.

Yet this sexual abuse power structure of the Catholic Church hierarchy tries to focus the spotlight on kind decent every day gay people and try to cast them as sinners.

As a lapsed catholic it boggles my mind how desperately Catholics shove their heads in the ground on who is "leading" them here on earth.

All my in-laws are extreme far right wing highly devoted Catholics, and it also boggles me how they so easily keep the blinders on to the amount of corruption in their church. They actually told me it is overly exaggerated and happens in all denominations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your son must live a chaste life; this is a burden but his suffering is a special offering.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Unfortunately, Leviticus 18:22 is alive and well and, unfortunately, many Christians want to close their eyes to this sad fact.

You don't even need to go to Levitical law to justify this. God's law is self evident at creation when he made Adam and Eve.

A lot of people who have acquired disordered passions have to (or should, rather) deny themselves. It's not some horrific suffering unique to homosexuality, sorry folks. Love your kid, but you have to be on God's side.

Yuck. You are an awful person.

Life is short. Love is love.

See this is the difference between you and Christians. We believe that life is eternal and that while short, mortality is a time of faith and testing, not a time to "make hay while the sun shines." We are asked to use our time on earth to become more like Jesus Christ every day. That means loving people who break God's commandments, while still expecting ourselves and others to keep them. We also believe that God gave us commandments to maximize our happiness on an eternal horizon.

This is what I don’t understand. You say our time on Earth is short. But it goes well beyond “short.” The afterlife is eternal. Let’s say we live 80 years. What percentage of eternity is 80 years? It’s not short, it’s undefined. It doesn’t exist. If the afterlife is eternal and we spent 80 years on Earth, in fact we spent no time on Earth.

[Anonymous]

You guys realize that you’re engaging with someone who represents a minority of Christians, right? Even Catholics I know love their gay kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the Episcopal Church, home of many former Catholics.

Home of heresy.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

#sinissin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the Episcopal Church, home of many former Catholics.

Home of heresy.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

#sinissin

Glad we got that straightened out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the Episcopal Church, home of many former Catholics.

Home of heresy.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

#sinissin

This has got to be a troll

[Anonymous]

Homosexual pedophiles have ruined the Catholic church.

[Anonymous]

I am a recovering catholic....and have joined a UU congregation....so much happier there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your son must live a chaste life; this is a burden but his suffering is a special offering.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Unfortunately, Leviticus 18:22 is alive and well and, unfortunately, many Christians want to close their eyes to this sad fact.

You don't even need to go to Levitical law to justify this. God's law is self evident at creation when he made Adam and Eve.

A lot of people who have acquired disordered passions have to (or should, rather) deny themselves. It's not some horrific suffering unique to homosexuality, sorry folks. Love your kid, but you have to be on God's side.

Yuck. You are an awful person.

Life is short. Love is love.

See this is the difference between you and Christians. We believe that life is eternal and that while short, mortality is a time of faith and testing, not a time to "make hay while the sun shines." We are asked to use our time on earth to become more like Jesus Christ every day. That means loving people who break God's commandments, while still expecting ourselves and others to keep them. We also believe that God gave us commandments to maximize our happiness on an eternal horizon.

So Jesus was like you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the Episcopal Church, home of many former Catholics.

Home of heresy.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

#sinissin

This has got to be a troll

Why do you find love is love to be a meaningful expression and not sin is sin?

[Anonymous]

As someone with a gay son, I find the "church's" teachings to be horrific, inhumane, and valueless. I put "church" in quotes because it really depends on what religious teachings you follow. Your mileage may vary. Some churches are wonderful. Many are terrible. I would simply avoid the terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone with a gay son, I find the "church's" teachings to be horrific, inhumane, and valueless. I put "church" in quotes because it really depends on what religious teachings you follow. Your mileage may vary. Some churches are wonderful. Many are terrible. I would simply avoid the terrible.

Yes, I look for churches to validate my desire for multiple wives. That's why I became Muslim and I've not been happier. it is so important to be validated. the purposes of religion is not to teach it is to validate my own cravings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone with a gay son, I find the "church's" teachings to be horrific, inhumane, and valueless. I put "church" in quotes because it really depends on what religious teachings you follow. Your mileage may vary. Some churches are wonderful. Many are terrible. I would simply avoid the terrible.

Yes, I look for churches to validate my desire for multiple wives. That's why I became Muslim and I've not been happier. it is so important to be validated. the purposes of religion is not to teach it is to validate my own cravings.

If that's intended to be an analogy, I don't think you know what an analogy is.

[Anonymous]

Gays put love above sex and gender, while homophobes but sex and gender above love.

Seems to me Jesus would put love as more important than sex and gender.

Gays seem to be better adjusted and Christian like than Christians of the right wing variety.

Regards
DL