What on earth is this idiot ex-priest/therapist talking about? Celibacy (forgoing marriage) has nothing to do with these priests -- chastity is the issue. And, beyond that, Sipe doesn't seem to realize that a "good priest," as he puts it, does not "orient" himself around an abomination.
All have crosses to bear. If a priest or anyone else bases his identity in his homo- or hetero-sexuality then he is not bearing his. A priest who advertises his sexuality has misinterpreted his calling. I do not know the sexual orientation of any of the priests I have known. It is not the focus of their lives. They have no need to discuss it or "act out." They are priests. A homosexual priest who gravitates toward Dignity is flaunting his sexuality. It IS his identity. He has a problem that he has not overcome. He is not avoiding "near occasions of sin."
God made Bill Clinton a womanizing adulterer. He embraced that.
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There should be no confusion among people in the church, over this issue. There should be no confusion among people in the church, gay or straight over this issue.
That there IS or APPEARS to be confusion, will continue to hurt the catholic church. I am not catholic, but my wife is. She completely agrees.
This is ridiculous. A minority of priests who are homosexual have perpetrated 95% of these molestations against teenage boys. Ipso facto, it's quite clear that homosexual priests have had far, far, far more difficulty keeping themselves away from teenagers than have heterosexual priests. It's absurd not to admit the obvious.
His Bishop and the Priest in charge of the Seminary should be defrocked if this idiot becomes a priest.
Homosexuals are trying to bring their teachings of the Homosexual lifestyle into the public schools for dissemination to children as young as 3rd and 4th grade.
They also want to teach the mechanics of Homosexual sex to these children as if it is a normal lifestyle.
I really can't believe this guy Halderman is so Brazen as to push his aberrant lifestyle at this point in time.
``They are on a witch hunt,'' said a gay priest who says Mass for a group of gay Catholics called Dignity meeting at a Congregational Church in downtown Columbus two Sunday evenings a month.Dignity is meeting in a Congregational Church because Dignity has been banned from Catholic churches. The only approved Catholic ministry to those with same-sex attractions is Courage.
The Catholic men and women of Courage lead chaste lives in accordance with the Church's traditional teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically evil, and do not even identify with themselves as "gay." Anyone identifying him/herself as a "gay Catholic" is shilling for the "gay activist" and are about as Catholic as "Catholics for Choice."
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA-Part I! How can sexually active Christian homosexuals, especially Catholics, consider themselves " ordinary men and women carrying on ordinary lives". They not only ignore the teachings of the Church, but the Bible too. This is like a married person having sex outside of marriage as a part of his/her normal ordinary everyday lifestyle. Both are sins, neither of which can receive forgiveness if continued as "normal", the difference is that homosexuality is concidered abnormal.
Either you abide by the covenant of faith or find another religion. You simply cannot be homosexual and Christian. Homosexuality is explicitly condemned in Christianity. It's condemned by nature itself.
I posted this before in response to someone who suggested that homosexuality was natural and occured within the animal kingdom, as if it were an excuse for perversion.
And yet Creation allows for homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom. Why?
Allow me to summarize the concept of homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom.
Yes, the great mechanism that Darwinists everywhere have embraced as a means to dispose of "that which is unfit to exist" or "that which should not survive". The great purge of the obscure, obsolete and useless. Making space and freeing up resources for those organisms that function properly and effectively within the natural order of life.
Extinction : The great tool by which all of nature's failures are erased.
Perhaps we should revisit exactly what occured with the Dinosaurs. Did Mr. T-rex suddenly lose interest in Ms. T-Rex? Was that giant meteor thing just a big sham? Is this yet another dark secret being guarded by the militant homosexual mafia? Inquiring minds want to know!
With good reason:
On May 9, [1978] a gay rights ordinance is defeated in Wichita, Kansas. Dignity/Wichita, a chapter in formation headed by Martin Mendoza, joins forces with the Catholic Worker movement and asks Dignity national and regional to help fight the ordinance. Dignity/Chicago responds by printing 50,000 pamphlets. Region VI brings in a busload of volunteers to help leaflet Wichita churches the Sunday before the election. Dignity National Officers Madeline Ritchie and Carla Kaesbauer fly in along with Bud Guiles, National newsletter editor, and Jim Wolfe, Social Action Committee Chair. Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent come from Washington DC and Father Paul Shanley arrives from Boston. Dignity/Los Angeles sends Father Jim Fleck and a check to pay for an ad in the Wichita paper the day before the election.(Dignity's History)
Shanley, of course, would later gain notoriety as a NAMBLA sympathizer and pederast himself.
Tayek said the church's position on homosexuality was spelled out clearly in a 1997 statement from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops called ``Always Our Children -- A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children.''
This document was written by a small clique; the bishops as a whole were never consulted, and the NCCB was involved in name only. More details here.
As it should.
Correction: some men who struggle with and who regularly overcome homosexual temptations have been carrying out the church's work for decades. Those who have given up the struggle to embrace and rationalize their temptations have no moral or spiritual authority and are priests in name only.
A radiant Mrs. Pedofag gaily poses on her, ah, his, well, ITS happy day!
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