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Related: About this forumThe Church’s Gay Obsession
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-the-churchs-gay-obsession.htmlOCT. 4, 2014
Frank Bruni
REPEATEDLY over the last year and a half, Ive written about teachers in Catholic schools and leaders in Catholic parishes who were dismissed from their posts because they were in same-sex relationships and in many cases had decided to marry.
Every time, more than a few readers weighed in to tell me that these people had it coming. If you join a club, they argued, you play by its rules or you suffer the consequences.
Oh really?
The rules of this particular club prohibit divorce, yet the pews of many of the Catholic churches Ive visited are populous with worshipers on their second and even third marriages. They walk merrily to the altar to receive communion, not a peep of protest from a soul around them. They participate fully in the rituals of the church, their membership in the club uncontested.
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The Church’s Gay Obsession (Original Post)
cbayer
Oct 2014
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rug
(82,333 posts)1. That is precisely the heart of it.
It's one thing to talk about sin in a religious sense, all kinds of sin. But when gay people are singled out, all that follows is homophobia.
edhopper
(33,075 posts)2. Good to hear you say
Many times your post have sounded like a you are excusing the Church. "It's not homosexuality, it's sex outside marriage", etc..."
What Bruni is saying, and many clearly see, it is about homosexuality for the Church.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Agree. When the rules are applied unequally, one can only see the bigotry.