Join Me in Taking a Stand for Equality!
New American pro-gay Catholic group formed
By Christopher Brocklebank
A group of American LGBT Catholics have created a new organisation to promote gay political causes and help bridge the gap between the traditional wing of the Church and the more progressive followers of the faith.
Catholics for Equality say that they seek to empower “pro-equality Catholics to put our faith into ethical and effective political action on behalf of the LGBT community and their families”.
Their website, which is currently under construction, is to have a tool for reporting “anti-equality political activity in your parish”. Equality issues they plan to devote their attention to include equality in the workplace, the military and the family, plus marriage equality and related issues around immigration.
The website states that the Catholic “heirarchy” favour political campaigns to oppose LGBT equality at the ballot box, and that “Catholic-elected officials who support legal equality for LGBT people are under increasing pressure from the hierarchy”.
They add that they wish to mobilise and educate Catholic voters and that Catholics who support full LGBT equality are in the majority in America.
In addition, the not-for-profit organisation hope to branch out with a non-political sister project, allowing them to engage in campus outreach programmes and engage “prominent pro-equality Catholics in the entertainment, civic, business and sports areas, providing them [with] a national platform as leading American Catholics to voice their support for LGBT equality”.
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well done ,just do want you think youshould do .where there is a will ,there is a way.I hope that one day the gap between the traditional wing of the Church and the more progressive followers of the faith is cme ture.
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If Catholic religion is really founded in the teaching of Christ, then you cannot be a catholic and gay or lesbian at the same time.
Yah all about tradition, but first and foremost GOD only made man and woman and nothing in between. I disagree to this kind of organization or whatsoever program. It is not the will of GOD.
Christ never taught being gay or lesbian was bad, he taught acceptance of all. You can be catholic and not believe every single line of the bible. We can’t know if what you read is really the exact teachings of Christ or God or even those who supposedly wrote the volumes. The bible as we read it today has been translated so many times over that it could be utterly different than it’s original written intent. Ever play that game in school where everyone sites in a circle and whispers to the next and by the end the message is completely different than the original. Same thing with the bible and all the translations and interpretations.
The creation of our Lord Jesus Christ is only a Man and a woman. nothing more nothing less.
I don’t think this is a very nice idea for our upcoming generation.
I agree with Tracy.
I don’t.
There’s a time for everything maybe they have a chance to embrace the grace of our Lord, in able to changed their lives in a correct fundamental creation of our father in heaven.