Homosexuality no longer a sin

[Whateverist]

Yes but whenever they say this, if you dive into it deeper, they still think the "act" of homosexuality (i.e. having a relationship / sex) is a sin.

It's all part of the "love the sinner, hate the sin" bullshit mantra.

As far as I can tell, the Pope has just told a gay person that it's fine "to be gay", i.e. "it's fine to feel sexual attraction to the same sex". I wonder what he thinks about actually following that attraction, because accepting gay people and accepting gay relationships are different things.

*my bold*

But for that matter I wonder what he thinks about the nature of hell and whatever that may be whether he thinks that is something appropriate to the sin of homosexuality.  Somehow I doubt it.  I suspect he thinks a lot of the more rigid forms of belief we routinely see here are bullshit.  But catholics seem to function through stories which they are happy to have believed literally by those not capable of more and symbolically by the everyone else.

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SteveII was telling me in another life that the core message of Christianity was not simply defined by what its believers believe and thus the core message of Christianity would indeed not change.

All I can say to that is, "Uh huh."

And the core message, at least for lucky Catholics, seems to be one size fits all levels of cognitive functioning but understood in different ways based on capacity.