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Colombian Bishop Floats Idea of Gay Apostle, Lesbian Mary Magdalene
Crux ^ | 5/15/15 | Inés San Martín

Posted on 05/16/2015 9:53:54 AM PDT by marshmallow

Bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba says 'no one chooses to be gay or straight'

ROME — A Colombian bishop, insisting that being homosexual is not a sin, said Thursday it’s possible that one of the twelve apostles of Jesus was gay or that Mary Magdalene, another key New Testament figure, was a lesbian.

Bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba of Fontibón, Colombia, also said the Catholic Church does not oppose same-sex couples making a life together, but does not consider such arrangements to be a marriage or a family.

“No one chooses to be gay or straight,” Córdoba said. “One simply feels, loves, experiments, is attracted, and no attraction is bad.”

Córdoba was speaking at a conference about gay marriage and adoption hosted by the local University of Los Andes, at a time when Colombia is debating gay marriage and adoption rights.

Although Córdoba reiterated Church teaching when it comes to marriage – that it’s a union between a man and a woman, permanent, and open to children – he said that homosexuality isn’t a sin.

“Sin is something else. It’s not respecting the dignity of others. Not loving God and our neighbors as we love ourselves, not feeding the hungry, not giving water to the thirsty,” Córdoba said.

He added that he prefers “a thousand times over” for Colombians to have dignity, a proper health system and food for all, rather than talking about whether they’re gay or straight.

According to local reports, Córdoba said that in the Bible there’s no explicit rejection of homosexuality, suggesting there’s no basis for making a condemnation of homosexuality a Church doctrine.

“We don’t know if one of Jesus’ disciples” had a same-sex orientation, he said. “We don’t know either if Mary Magdalene was a lesbian.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: blasphemy; colombia; homosexualagenda; inbefore; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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Lavender mafia ever more emboldened and making its pitch before the Synod.
1 posted on 05/16/2015 9:53:54 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
It would be a bad movie if it weren't really happening.

But I suppose from the perspective of eternity it's about as enduring as a bad movie, after all.

2 posted on 05/16/2015 9:56:48 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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To: marshmallow
“No one chooses to be gay or straight,” Córdoba said. “One simply feels, loves, experiments, is attracted, and no attraction is bad.”

No attraction is bad huh? Some guys like little kids and others like to get it on with corpses.

3 posted on 05/16/2015 9:57:33 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: marshmallow
Doesn't matter that not a word of that appears in the Bible.
4 posted on 05/16/2015 9:58:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia. A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. -- Andrew Cummins)
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To: marshmallow

no attraction is bad///

I’ve been eyeing my cat lately.


5 posted on 05/16/2015 9:58:59 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: marshmallow

Was there ever a queer that didn’t make the claim that every accomplished person wasn’t somehow a closet queer.


6 posted on 05/16/2015 9:59:20 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: marshmallow

No love is bad eh? Must be a pederast.


7 posted on 05/16/2015 9:59:39 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I suspect the only gay person mentioned in the article is the Bishop himself.


8 posted on 05/16/2015 10:01:26 AM PDT by Oak Grove (H)
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To: marshmallow
"Hath God indeed said...?"

It's the same old lie from the same old source.


9 posted on 05/16/2015 10:02:26 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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>>“No one chooses to be gay or straight,” Córdoba said. “One simply feels, loves, experiments, is attracted, and no attraction is bad.”

No attraction is bad??? Watch your butts boys. The priests are back and they’re working with the Gaystapo now.


10 posted on 05/16/2015 10:02:49 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: marshmallow

Rumor has it that Bishop Juan’s favorite books in the Bible are First and Second Lebesians


11 posted on 05/16/2015 10:11:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba says 'no one chooses to be gay or straight'

OK tootsieroll .... where are they (you?) on this chart, then ....

or this one


???


Y'see, Creampuff .... you don't exist with being descended FROM .... unless you CHOOSE ... and THAT only for your one, little bitty lifetime

buh bye.

12 posted on 05/16/2015 10:17:36 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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“No one chooses to be gay or straight,”

I thought that lying was one of the deadly sins.

13 posted on 05/16/2015 10:19:02 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: marshmallow

I think we’ve found the second South American pope!


14 posted on 05/16/2015 10:21:23 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: marshmallow

Just remember that Satan attacks the clergy more fiercely than the laity.

Pray for them.


15 posted on 05/16/2015 10:24:42 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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“and no attraction is bad”

Only sex pervs play down sex perversion as okay. Usually as a way to justify their own sex perversion.

Not to mention the Bible has something completely different to say about it.
Even Jimmah Cartah knows that.


16 posted on 05/16/2015 10:27:47 AM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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To: marshmallow
Bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba of Fontibón, Colombia, also said the Catholic Church does not oppose same-sex couples making a life together, but does not consider such arrangements to be a marriage or a family.

And what does this "Bishop" have to say about Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? Any ideas as to why that may have happened?

Hint; you don't get to "pick and choose" your scriptures.

Regards,
GtG

17 posted on 05/16/2015 10:27:57 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: marshmallow

I just looked him up. Apparently he’s a Jesuit. And not long a bishop. Appointed auxiliary bishop in 2004, and this is his first post as head bishop.

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcorvi.html


18 posted on 05/16/2015 10:29:09 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: marshmallow

New International Version:

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

James 3:1


19 posted on 05/16/2015 10:36:58 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: knarf
I believe that Adam & Eve were the progenitors of the human race but one question has always bothered me. After Cane killed Able he left his parents. Genesis has him traveling to the "Land of Nod" where he met and married a woman.

If Adam, Eve, & Cane were the only humans where did the people of "Nod" come from?

Regards,
GtG

20 posted on 05/16/2015 10:37:27 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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