tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2975790203223807019..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Amoris LaetitiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-69350644778059486512017-10-19T13:42:59.676-05:002017-10-19T13:42:59.676-05:00Let me just clarify that my views aren't those...Let me just clarify that my views aren't those of any of the contending parties named above - I don't believe for a moment that homosexuality is "disordered" or sinful at all. I'm the contrary, I believe that LGBTQ individuals brings their own special gifts that enrich the human community and that it's pretty obvious that they do. The abominable argument that these individuals can't be chaste because the only intimate human relations they can have are outside of a legitimizing marriage is simply an exercise of defining them into depravity. The answer is simple: they are humans with the right to form the bond of committed love we call marriage. <br /><br />Whether or not Fr. Martin believes this or would like the church to allow it is beside the point that he doesn't ADVOCATE for it, because as a Catholic priest he isn't permitted to - which gives the lie to Milo's criticism. trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-71153128529838756592017-10-18T11:37:02.860-05:002017-10-18T11:37:02.860-05:00What's so fundamentally, outrageously and purp...What's so fundamentally, outrageously and purposefully dishonest about Milo's charge against Fr. Martin is that Fr. Martin is in line with both Catholic teaching and the recent statements of the Pope, namely that while the Church may teach that homosexuality is disordered, the inclination itself is not a sin and certainly not a reason to discard individuals, as everyone is imperfect.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Milo's confessions about his own philosophy on the matter are not at all in line with Church teachings - namely, that he can live an actively homosexual lifestyle, hope for forgiveness one day when he tires of it or on his deathbed, and that somehow he gets a pass because he is claims to be representing the TRUE teachings of the Catholic Church. And like a rodeo clown he wants Catholics to laugh and look away at the horror what he's really saying because of his "yeah I'm a sinner but I'm more Catholic than the Pope" schtick" with a pithy utterance from a medieval saint that has a kind of wry bumper sticker value. He's saying HIS sin isn't serious, but HOMOSEXUALITY is! Trust him people, he is one!<br /><br />Milo is a sniveling liar and Wormtongue with a dark, regressive agenda against women, the marginalized, the stranger - basically the usual victims that fascism seeks out. I think he sees himself as having a place in the new fascistic order envisioned by the powers he serves despite his open homosexuality; that he will be issued an exception from discrimination and oppression because he's been a tool in bringing it about. And maybe he will for a time, if it's ever successful. But in the end these dark currents take on lives of their own and turn on even those who brought them about in the name of "purity."<br /><br />He is a ridiculous damn idiot for thinking otherwise. That his is "real" disorder.trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.com