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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The universities, the churches/cathedrals, and yet I never meet any Catholics out in this area at all.

What gives? [/quote]

This is a hard town to be openly Catholic with people that you don’t know well. Although the majority of US Catholics and Catholics in this area particular, are not social conservatives, you will be tar-brushed as right wing.

Before the pandemic, I volunteered for years with a nonprofit that did art therapy. In 2019, someone joined the board who assumed that I and another volunteer would be anti-LGBTQ because of our religions. She demanded that we quit because she said it made her feel uncomfortable and she was certain we made the population we served uncomfortable. She only knew I was Catholic because she asked to change a meeting to accommodate her religious holiday and I said I couldn’t attend the new date because my religious holiday was the next day.

When I was told I had to quit because I was Catholic, I fought back a bit, pointing out that 1)one of my kids was an out lesbian and very active in our parish, 2) the witnesses at my wedding were a gay couple, and 3) I had been the volunteer who brought in a trans masc artist (a friend’s partner) to work with our Haitian clients.

It didn’t work. The knee jerk on her part was that as a Catholic, I had to be a bigot so I had to go.

Since then, I have been hesitant to identify myself as Catholic. When it happens online, I see that same knee jerk response even when I am clearly protesting socially conservative policies and ideas. [/quote]

I’m really sorry you were treated like a member of your church and not as an individual. But the Church has made its position on LGBQT people abundantly clear - God loves you, but living as your authentic self and seeking out human love and connection in the way you were born to want is a mortal sin that you must avoid at all costs. Your daughter may be a lesbian, but the church demands that she live without sexual companionship and will not recognize any marriage she makes unless it is to a born man.

People are not unreasonable in assuming that your continued support of and affiliation with an institution with such a clearly stated policy indicates your support for that policy. Maybe it’s not fair, but church affiliation isn’t mandatory, and it’s certainly not something that is outside your control.

If your organization serves a lot of LGBQT people, you have to accept that serving that population in a real way means recognizing when your choices make people uncomfortable.  No one is going to ask a card carrying member of the Daughters of the Confederacy to join the NAACP Board, even if she’s just honoring her ancestors and isn’t really a racist. The stink is there. [/quote]

I'm not sure which post is worse.  Hers or yours.

I don't believe she was asked to leave because she was Catholic.  That's total bullshit and didn't happen.  But assuming it really did, your support for it is also bullshit.  You're a bigot.[/quote]

Taking responsibility for your choices is hard, I can see why you’d shut down and start insulting people who make you uncomfortable.

Maybe you should stop being bigoted to people based on who they are and how they love. How dare you presume God made them wrong?! What do you know?
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One of us is the bigot and it ain't me.  [/quote]

Saying it over and over again doesn’t make it true. God knows what you think about his creations. You’re crazy if you think any amount of ritual can forgive that kind of unabashed hate. Absolutely crazy. [/quote]

What on earth are you talking about?  Are you just trolling?  Spare me the Catholic bashing.  I've been Catholic my whole life.  I went to Catholic school through grad school.  I've been to Mass a thousand times over.  Never once have I been subjected to anything anti-gay in any of those contexts.  My best friend is gay.  I just went to his wedding with my whole family.  The Pride Parade is our favorite day in the summer.  We live right on the parade route and have a party.  I don't give sh*t if you're gay, and neither does any Catholic I know.

You're the one generalizing and spreading hate.   [/quote]

You’re pretty lucky then, because our homily today (in Arlington) was centered around the holy family and how same sex couples, people who “choose their gender” and those who don’t marry and have children aren’t on the right path. That was the message. I don’t agree with it, but we get a homily like a few times a year. [/quote]
NP here. This is interesting to me.   As a DC native and Catholic, I have visited and attended various Catholic parishes through the DMV throughout my 50 plus years on earth.  I have never heard a priest mentioned same sex couples in his homily or in other settings.   If anything, I think the priests in the DMV area are soft and somewhat cowardly. They veer too much on the side of "God is love" and they go through great lengths to avoid controversial topics.  There is nothing wrong with feel good homilies and inspiring hope to parishioners, but sometimes I desire to have a warrior type of priest who is not afraid to tackle tough issues head on.    I am not looking to agree with a priest on every topic, but I truly embrace clergy who challenge parishioners and like to shake things up a little.

If you don't mind me asking, "What parish in Arlington are you referring to?"
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You’re replying to me. Come to St Agnes or St Charles in Arlington. We get the anti gay marriage homilies. I’m surprised to hear at least 2 PPs say they never get these messages. I want to walk out on the homily once or twice a year. [/quote]

Have you ever walked out on a homily that you disagree with?[/quote]

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