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BarackTheVote

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14. I really do think this teaching can change

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 07:13 PM

Dec 2013

or at least be deemphasized. Homosexuality is never mentioned in the Gospels, and the only time it is mentioned is in a rant by St. Paul... which, St. Paul also complained about men having long hair, which obviously we don't take seriously today. I'd love to see the core of the Gospel (love your neighbour as yourself; do unto others as you would have them do unto you) actually become the most important moral teaching. Take that bone away from the hate-mongers.

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LGBTQ: the sea change is happening: Eastside Catholic students strike in support [View all] pnwmom Dec 2013 OP

Heh, this is how ex-Catholics are made, once they realize the school and the Church aren't... Humanist_Activist Dec 2013 #1

It's pretty short-sighted. nt pnwmom Dec 2013 #2

OK, how about "unchurched" Catholics, there's a reason quite a lot of Catholics... Humanist_Activist Dec 2013 #3

I agree with you on both points. They risk alienating many people this way. pnwmom Dec 2013 #4

how do we get this story to the pope? Chrom Dec 2013 #6

No he wouldn't he is against same-sex marriage. Humanist_Activist Dec 2013 #8

Francis is and has been for years a raving propagandist against equality or any other Bluenorthwest Dec 2013 #11

His views have evolved on the issue. pnwmom Dec 2013 #15

or this is how the catholic church is forced to change for the better Chrom Dec 2013 #5

Really, how? Did he change the Church's teachings on anything? n/t Humanist_Activist Dec 2013 #7

He hasn't changed the teachings but pnwmom Dec 2013 #9

I really do think this teaching can change BarackTheVote Dec 2013 #14

I think he IS trying to deemphasize it. pnwmom Dec 2013 #16

The American Catholic Church is very close to schism BarackTheVote Dec 2013 #17

Yes -- and "if they stick around" is the big question. Pope Francis might help. pnwmom Dec 2013 #18

The Church needs to emphasize love and the sacraments BarackTheVote Dec 2013 #19

I would've been right there with them BarackTheVote Dec 2013 #13

I would love to see the Pope weigh in on this one. nm rhett o rick Dec 2013 #10

He has, for years. His entire career is built on vehement and extreme anti gay Bluenorthwest Dec 2013 #12

Do you have links for this? I would like to know what he said pnwmom Dec 2013 #20