Bishops may OK new guidelines on gay Catholics

[FernBell]

Though continuing to stress that same-sex relationships are immoral, America's Roman Catholic bishops may approve new guidelines this week that would absolve gay Catholics of any obligation to try to alter their sexual orientation.

The guidelines for ministering to homosexuals, to be reviewed when bishops convene today in Baltimore for their annual fall meeting, also will urge clergy to baptize the adopted children of same-sex couples who agree to raise them Catholic.

"We are trying to find a language that does not betray the teaching of the church, but will perhaps express it in ways that are not so offensive," Cardinal Francis George, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an interview.

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"They're much more concerned with whether two homosexuals are going to get married or not. They've lost focus on the needs of the human race," said Sam Sinnett, president of DignityUSA, a gay Catholic group.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bishops13nov13,1,5996307.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[Erika]

1. I have been totally turned off by the Catholic hostility on gays

It's been almost vicious with a vengeance. Ninety percent of their time is spent campaigning against gays. The other ten percent protecting their own. They have completely forgotten the poor.

[DRoseDARs]

2. That's a common mistake people make: Jesus didn't throw the money changers out of the temple...

...He ranted and railed about all the homos having raunchy sex in His house.

This would be the corrected translation:
"Jesus entered the Temple area and drove out all who were pitching and catching there. He overturned the tables of the fisters and the benches of those selling lube. 'It is written,' he said to them, 'My house will be called a house of prayer but you are making it a den of cock.'" (Matthew 21:12-13)

:sarcasm:

[xchrom]

3. gay folk -- and gay men in particular

are their scapegoat for harbouring so many pedophiles.

the catholic church has boxed itself in and cannot retreat.

the church is FULL of educated individuals who KNOW that gayness is natural -- but they must persist now.

[mitchtv]

4. Stop the presses!

the American church is getting a box of Bandaids!I gave up that bullshit 50 years ago. The homphobia coming from Rome is unrelenting

[goddess40]

5. just don't do it

Thats what their message will be the same shit as "we don't hate the sinner only the sin" bullshit. They're going to say it's ok to be gay just pretend you aren't.

[Sapphocrat]

6. With each passing day...

...I'm only happier to be one more day removed from my own Catholic upbringing.

Sign me,

Ex-Catholic, 30 Years and Counting

[dsc]

7. I could honestly respect them if they were consistent

but they aren't.

[hedgehog]

8. These bishops are detroying the Church.

My gay daughter was very much welcomed at Church under the former pastor. He's now working in Africa because he couldn't take the garbage coming down from the Chancery any more, and she hasn't been to Mass more than once since the new priest took over.