Gay, Catholic and Doing Fine

[Brian37]

@CL: Have you considered that your children may not come out to you at all, or even repress their sexuality, knowing what you will think of them?

If they are gay, I can see them having to choose between the church and their happiness.

Hi Rob. 

No, I haven't considered that. Because I plan on being a good, loving mother... and that will show by how I treat them. I won't raise my children to think that I'll stop loving them if they tell me they have an *involuntary* attraction towards particular type of people, regardless of what that is. Especially since that attraction isn't wrong in and of itself, considering it isn't freely chosen. And I certainly won't raise them to think I'll stop loving them if they do something I don't agree with. It would be like me asking you the same types of questions except if your kids became Christians, you know? I'm sure you would still be an excellent father to your kids and I'm sure you would still love them. 

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "what I think of them?" Like I said yesterday, we are supposed to feel about gay people the same way we feel about everybody else, and that is to love them. A person's sexuality shouldn't identify them or change the way we feel about them.      

Hmm, I don't see why following Church teaching and happiness have to be mutually exclusive. After all, we are commenting on a thread where a gay Catholic man is talking about how happy and fulfilling his life is...

Of course you cant understand. Just like the house slave doesn't understand why the field slaves complain, after all massa treats you real well.

NOW again, this isn't about you, or your rights. This is about the bad logic in that book that leads you to your bad conclusion. You are talking about your own perceptions and interpretations and we are trying to explain to you that perspective is flawed, and not only flawed, but hurtful to gays, even if you perceive yourself as having good intent. This is NOT about you, this is about your bad logic. And you keep insisting on clinging to that  bad logic after you said you had no evidence for your position.

People have posted several verses in that bible that are used to condemn gays, and if I'm not correct, it is your position that homosexuality is a "sin"? You are literally telling people they are broken, and doing that AFTER you admit you could not prove your position. 

My mom is a neat freak, I am not, the difference is although I don't like that obsession about her, I don't treat her like she is broken. You don't have to like everything anyone else does, but that DOES NOT mean they are broken. Calling someone being gay a "sin" isn't just saying "that's not my thing". It is treating them as less of a human being than you.