Gay, Catholic and Doing Fine

[drfuzzy]

How would you feel if your child was gay, and because they felt like an outcast because of the church they committed suicide?  Because a lot of gay teens are committing suicide, and the church is strongly linked as a contributing factor.  When they hear maggots like athrock using words like 'disorder' to describe them, and bastards like Pope Nazi XVI call them a defection of nature, how could it not affect them?  Consider what that does to a person who is raised to believe in this kind and all loving god, who are raised to believe that it's the 100% truth.  Then when they discover they are gay -- and yes, discover.  They do not make a decision to be gay.  When they discover they are gay, they have feelings of shame and they feel they are wrong inside.  When there's not a damn thing wrong with them.

Christian doctrine is simply put outdated.  Going 2000 years without an update, sans the wacky mormons, will tend to do that.  "Gods" perfect laws aren't perfect any more.  They do far more harm than good.  When a book includes stoning people for picking up sticks on Sunday... it's not exactly a book that you should get your morality from.

Oh hell yeah.  Exactly, Divinity.  I think it was around Christmas time 2012 when Pope Benedict Arnold declared all homosexuals "intrinsically disordered" in some Papal missive.  Now, at this time, I was defining myself as atheist. And I was pretty sure this Pope was a sick bastard already - - he had said in some previous drivel that he wrote that only Catholic Christians would go to heaven. Buh-bye, Protestants!  (what an asshole)  And I was 50 and I think I've heard just about every slur and insult possible - some to my face. But I still had to lock myself up by the organ for a few minutes and cry and cuss and grieve for all of the young gay Catholics who just got stabbed through the heart. I know exactly what it feels like to believe that "god hates me".