Gay, Catholic and Doing Fine

[Catholic_Lady]

@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...