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Re: Would you allow your son to go to camp where there were openly gay members? [W:19
As I have said over and over again, gays can be members of the Catholic Church we are taught to hate the sin but love the sinner and sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin whether your straight or gay. The church has certain requirements......You are required to confess your sins unless you don't have any and the only person that fits that description is Jesus Christ. You are required to attend mass on Sundays and holy days.....If you don't then its a mortal sin. Its not easy to be a Catholic but those are the facts.
Honestly, I think it's very poor debate to tell someone they can't belong to x religion or denomination because of how they live. If someone says they have Catholic faith then they are Catholic. You can think they are wrong in their theology and argue that, but it's poor form to say that someone else isn't what they claim to be because you disagree on an issue.
I know 2 ex gay Christians that struggle with same sex attractions. They are Christian.
I know an openly gay Mormon, I'm not going to say that he isn't a Mormon because he is gay and the Mormon church tends to be pretty strong against homosexuality.
I know a gay Evangelical Christian. I would never say that he isn't an Evangelical Christian because he lives an openly homosexual lifestyle.
I can have opinions about their theology and if they are right or wrong, but I would never disrespect them and go so low as to tell them they aren't Christians, Mormons, or anything else.
As I have said over and over again, gays can be members of the Catholic Church we are taught to hate the sin but love the sinner and sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin whether your straight or gay. The church has certain requirements......You are required to confess your sins unless you don't have any and the only person that fits that description is Jesus Christ. You are required to attend mass on Sundays and holy days.....If you don't then its a mortal sin. Its not easy to be a Catholic but those are the facts.