Thursday, November 29, 2007
Catholicism and Homosexuality - What God Knows?
Who knows what God knows? I sit in a pew within a Church that time and time again thinks it knows what God knows. For instance, this Church called on its people in my Diocese this past weekend, on the feast of Christ the King, to contact their appropriate legislators, and encourage them to vote against civil unions of same sex couples, and guard the sanctity of marriage. Sanctity, of course, also means holiness, blessedness, sacredness and purity. I feel sorry for this Church, who after two thousand years of serious, punitive mistakes and blunders continues to preach a gospel of exclusion in antithesis to what Jesus preached. It continues to mix religion with politics despite Jesus clearly emphasizing to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. This is what I think. God is pure love. God is neither male nor female. God desires that we love one another as we love ourselves. If two human beings, regardless of gender, are totally devoted to one another in pure, unadulterated love, does not that act, in and of itself, encompass sanctity, holiness, blessedness, and sacredness? What if, say in ten or twenty years from now, we definitively find out that human beings are born, due to whatever genetic explanation is given, innately with specific sexual orientation. What then? Again, do we so blasphemously presume to know all that God knows at any given time in humanity that we can remove certain segments of the human population from having sanctified relationships? I am Catholic. I am someone who would not even consider abortion. I am heterosexual. I have a sanctified marriage. I have children. But I am not a Pharisee. I am not about thanking God with a “but for the grace of God go I” ethic. I believe in a God and a faith that welcomes all to the table. A few years ago at a catechists’ convocation a Jesuit priest by the name of Nathan Mitchell said that Jesus welcomed everyone to the table; he dined with everyone; and because of this he was crucified. How does the Church keep getting the lesson so wrong?
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this is so.
freaking.
good.
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