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[silhouetteofyou]

All righty. I'm acting on impulse here, I admit, but this thing is heavy on my mind and I'm infinitely curious about how my readership is going to react and what my online "Friends" think

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Right on the mark.

[charmur7]

Damn--this lady is right on the mark. Like, sure, when I first read this I vomited a little bit

[therussianfunk]

It kinda seems like every other thing that has been repressed in history. First it's swept under the carpet, then it just explodes into the world. Next thing you know, people can't even remember when it wasn't that way.

Me? I really don't mind homosexuals, they don't weird me out or make me feel uncomfortable in the least. Crimety, tons of people think I'm gay, including my girlfriend's mom! No lie, she does. But I have classmates and friends who you would never expect, but when the question is posed as to what they think on the subject, they will adamantly defend the fact that gays and lesbians are going to hell

[samthesham]

I love that you used "Jebus", like Homer did. But yeah, I pretty much agree with Kev here. For a long time, I was homophobic, which could be at the roots of why I hate theater...but that's a different beast all together. I'm no longer homophobic. I was for a time because of a family friend who came out when I was very young. I had a hard time understanding it. But now that I'm a little older, a little wiser, I know there's nothing wrong with it. After all, I've seen two male dogs going at it in the park, and where are the preists leaping out of bushes banishing them to Hell?!
And believe me, if that had happened, I'd look just as confused as the poor dog on the recieving end.

the bigot is the housewife, the bussinessman, the begger...

[salparadise87]

maybe they all just need to take a big sniff of this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101776.html

but, in case that doesnt work:
i'm sure belen jesuit preparotory school will be so much better because it sends it's illustrius alumni to less big name schools like harvard or penn or duke, and instead sends them to places where they wont have to deal with all those pesky homosexuals like loyola of new orleans, or chapel hill, or...wait...

fucking idiots.
you dont realize how truly ugly bigotry is untill you see hate, fear and suspicion come from housewives and elderly people, but the fascist state doesnt run on white caucasian male alone.

[lilybelle225]

I read and reread this letter, and I sat here trying to think of a way to really voice my annoyance towards this letter, and I realized I really don't have much to say-mostly because I can't even put myself in a place to see it from the other side. That's what I try to do-I try to see things from both sides to at least understand where the other person is coming from. I just can't. Those who are gay are people. Love is love, and that is all. So why should homosexuals be treated any differently?

[aimee_c]

I would say that that is a very cynical article. Once again, someone has misinterpreted the Catholic church, and has bashed it without having the slightest clue about what it calls people to believe. Catholics are taught to interpret the Word, not take it literally. This is what seperates Catholics from all other Christian denominations. Catholics are "contexualists" as opposed to "fundamentalists." The Catechism of the Catholic church teaches that "The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church, the Magisterium." However, the Church teaches two senses of Scripture, the literal sense (such as the passages found in John referring to Christ's body and blood as the Eucharist) and the spiritual sense (such as the examples you stated in the article above). But all intellect aside, do you really think that the Catholic church would endorse the selling of your daughter into slavery or putting someone to

[eyeswide_inlove]

"Catholics are taught to interpret the Word, not take it literally. This is what seperates Catholics from all other Christian denominations. Catholics are 'contexualists' as opposed to 'fundamentalists

[aimee_c]

While the church teaches that the Pope is infallable soley on matters of the faith (interpreting the Scripture), it also teaches that one must rely on one's own conscience when coming to any moral conclusion. Yes, as a Catholic, a person is responsible for following the teachings of the Church, but conscience plays a pivitol role in the religion as well. Does this mean that a conscience is without error? No, of course not. The Pope, as a man and as a human being, is not infallable. It is in matters of the faith that he is 100% infallable, not because he is God, but because he represents him as a father of the Church. In responce to "making generalizations," I didn't mean to categorize, but being a fundamentalist is not any worse or any better than being a contextualist, it is just another way of viewing things. Many people misinterpret the Catholic faith, as well as many other faiths, because of what they hear and what other misinformed people preach as truth.