German bishops agree with scientists: homosexuality is normal

[LastPoet]

To many people, they are. In a catholic country like I am, half of them still absorb the rethoric. The remainder are cafeteria catholics that care not.

[Jehanne]

Gee golly thanks for your approval Catholic Church! 🙄

I'm looking forward to the day when the RCC's approval on anything is ignored. When my sons were growing up, we went to church because we thought that it was the right thing to do. We volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America because we thought that it was the right thing to do. But we NEVER left our children alone with other people unless we vetted them pretty thoroughly, church or scouts included. FWIW, my sons are not religious, but I will say that the scouting program exposed my sons to things that I never would have thought of if I hadn't joined them in it. In retrospect, had I been an atheist then, I could have bought the scouting handbooks and learned and taught them the things in them. The scouting program is useful for living. The RCC's program is useful for death. YMMV.

I do not understand how anyone can take the Roman Catholic Church seriously on any issue whatsoever; the only reason that the Church has any sort of power in today's World is because it had real power in centuries past.  Basically, it's an entity that has run out of gas and is simply coasting to a slow stop.

[Fireball]

I'm looking forward to the day when the RCC's approval on anything is ignored. When my sons were growing up, we went to church because we thought that it was the right thing to do. We volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America because we thought that it was the right thing to do. But we NEVER left our children alone with other people unless we vetted them pretty thoroughly, church or scouts included. FWIW, my sons are not religious, but I will say that the scouting program exposed my sons to things that I never would have thought of if I hadn't joined them in it. In retrospect, had I been an atheist then, I could have bought the scouting handbooks and learned and taught them the things in them. The scouting program is useful for living. The RCC's program is useful for death. YMMV.

I do not understand how anyone can take the Roman Catholic Church seriously on any issue whatsoever; the only reason that the Church has any sort of power in today's World is because it had real power in centuries past.  Basically, it's an entity that has run out of gas and is simply coasting to a slow stop.

It's the physics training in me, applied to the emotions- I'll call it emotional inertia. The sooner that shit stops the better. If the participants took it on as a helper role, that would be good. But the number of "miscreants" is a large percentage, and the enablers are rife. Disgusting.

[Jehanne]

I do not understand how anyone can take the Roman Catholic Church seriously on any issue whatsoever; the only reason that the Church has any sort of power in today's World is because it had real power in centuries past.  Basically, it's an entity that has run out of gas and is simply coasting to a slow stop.

It's the physics training in me, applied to the emotions- I'll call it emotional inertia. The sooner that shit stops the better. If the participants took it on as a helper role, that would be good. But the number of "miscreants" is a large percentage, and the enablers are rife. Disgusting.

For most Catholics, it's a pro forma aspect of their lives, weddings and funerals along with some holidays, plus the occasional Mass when convenient or when emotional and/or social longing facilitates such.

[Mr Greene]

Well this side of the pond it did become a case of 'hatches, matches and dispatches', but now it seems to have become all funerals as there don't seem to be any left of the right age bracket to do anything else...

[Prycejosh1987]

It seems that Catholic Church in Germany is ready to stop persecuting gays and accept homosexuality as OK

There was agreement that the sexual preference of humans is expressed in puberty and assumes a hetero- or homosexual orientation. Both were normal forms of sexual predisposition that could not be changed, or needed to be changed, by any specific socialization.

With regard to the coexistence of heterosexual couples, the bishops Koch and Bode referred to the papal text " Amoris laetitia ". The letter no longer rates a sexual relationship after divorce and remarriage as a serious sin and therefore does not provide for a general exclusion from receiving the Eucharist.

The participants disagreed whether the use of artificial contraceptives should be allowed in marriage and in the case of unmarried couples. So far, the Catholic Church considers only natural methods of contraception such as the temperature or cycle method to be morally justifiable.

https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/23826-...s-normales

homosexuality is more of a problem than a solution. Imagine everyone was homosexual. Imagine if everyone slept with their own sex. Think about what would happen. More STIs less descendants etc.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's a sexual orientation you nitwit. Not a problem -or- a solution.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

homosexuality is more of a problem than a solution. Imagine everyone was homosexual. Imagine if everyone slept with their own sex. Think about what would happen. More STIs less descendants etc.

*imagining if everyone was homosexual*










*failing to panic* (as long as I can have a go at Tom Hardy)

Boru

[Deesse23]

It seems that Catholic Church in Germany is ready to stop persecuting gays and accept homosexuality as OK

homosexuality is more of a problem than a solution. Imagine everyone was homosexual. Imagine if everyone slept with their own sex. Think about what would happen. More STIs less descendants etc.

Oh, look, another closetet gay.
Where do you lock up your gay porn at home?

[LadyForCamus]

It seems that Catholic Church in Germany is ready to stop persecuting gays and accept homosexuality as OK

homosexuality is more of a problem than a solution. Imagine everyone was homosexual. Imagine if everyone slept with their own sex. Think about what would happen. More STIs less descendants etc.

I prefer to imagine a world where people aren’t homophobic. But, that’s just me.