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From Street to Sanctuary: The LGBT Take On the Church
The Homiletic and Pastoral Review ^ | 6/12/17 | Fr. Regis Scanlon OFMCap

Posted on 06/13/2017 7:53:32 PM PDT by marshmallow

The “Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans” movement (hereafter, LGBT) has largely succeeded in becoming fully accepted into the secular society worldwide. Now it’s clear that this movement—composed of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the trans-gendered—is setting its sights on the Roman Catholic Church. Members of the LGBT movement want to be accepted as fully Catholic and wholly Christian, without any admittance that the two ways of life—LGBT principles and an authentically Catholic life—may be mutually exclusive. They seek the Church’s approval of their lifestyle, even though most members of the LGBT movement reject the Church’s teaching on celibacy for single life outside of a “one man-one woman” marriage. What’s more, the acceptance of the movement has become a real possibility, given the reactions of a growing number of bishops and theologians in recent years.

The seeds of this acceptance go back a long way. I recall working with young college students some years ago when some leading LGBT members first attacked the local bishop for defending the Church’s teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically evil. They did this by taking out full page ads in the local newspaper. The Catholic students were outraged, and collected money for a full-page ad in the newspaper to defend the bishop’s stand on the immorality of homosexual activity.

Then the diocese got wind of what we were doing. I was asked to have the students stand down. The reason was that the diocese did not want to be involved in a street fight between LGBT members and the Church. We failed, then, to engage in a street fight over moral values, which means that today, the Church could very well be facing a sanctuary fight over these same moral issues. Given the track record on the LGBT’s tolerance for people who do not agree with them, if the movement.....

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholicchurch; homosexualagenda

1 posted on 06/13/2017 7:53:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
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2 posted on 06/13/2017 8:00:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Next people who eat pork will demand that Jews make pork kosher..... NOT.


3 posted on 06/13/2017 8:03:27 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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If they get what they want the Roman Church will be de facto heretical. For a pious Catholic that leaves no options within the Roman Church.


4 posted on 06/13/2017 8:12:47 PM PDT by arthurus
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Members of the LGBT movement want to be accepted as fully Catholic and wholly Christian, without any admittance that the two ways of life—LGBT principles and an authentically Catholic life—may be mutually exclusive.

If they really care about acceptance why are they not taking on Muslims and Sharia Law?

Catholics do not throw homosexuals off tall building or burn them alive.

Muslims do these things.

I guess they are trying something easy first.

Oh and they better be changing the minds of their Democrat Party allies about importing more Muslims to the US because eventually there will be enough Muslims in the US to start throwing Homosexuals off of buildings here.

5 posted on 06/13/2017 8:13:13 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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You always have options. What the heretics do only effects them. You can not soil your garments and Jesus will call to you to:”Come up here!”


6 posted on 06/13/2017 8:25:25 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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Fake fight. If “the church” accepts lgbxyz is up to “the church.” Either they unite or they don’t. No fight involved except between ideology.

The destination of “the church” is in flux ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidAGwtYGuA&list=PL-qEUtaM16u67bpIOQSpUrUFCHC_Ay7Vl


7 posted on 06/13/2017 8:33:17 PM PDT by soycd
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The LGBT kahlifate have decised they are gods and will mot audfer a divorce or being told that marrying into the church is not enough for salvation.


8 posted on 06/13/2017 9:29:24 PM PDT by lavaroise
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*The LGBT kahlifate have decided they are gods and will not suffer a divorce or being told that marrying into the church is not enough for salvation.


9 posted on 06/13/2017 9:30:02 PM PDT by lavaroise
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If the Church can convince homosexuals to turn their hearts over to the lordship of Christ, the Holy Spirit will bring them to a new life.


10 posted on 06/14/2017 1:37:43 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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Oh, I suspect that Muslims will not accept anyone higher on the pecking order than them. It is like the Nazis or the communists, you are useful to them, but when they get the power, then you are no longer useful to them.


11 posted on 06/15/2017 8:46:02 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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