favorite thread right here
A while ago, during the week right before the presidential elections (in November 2012), my church decided to release a "guide" to voting for the "correct" president if you were still contemplating. I was outraged when I seen it because at the top of the list of things you shouldn't even consider (as in you should be against them no matter what) was Homosexual Marriage.
After raging over it for a while, I went to my aunt who is the Director of Religious Education and pretty much demanded to know what right she and the other officials of the church have to tell people who to vote for based on Homosexual Marriage and Gay Rights. Her response was something similar to "the Bible says that being gay is wrong," and "God clearly says that being homosexual is a sin."
I definitely wasn't going to stand for that because as the only open-minded Catholic kid in my church, I believed it wasn't gay rights, it was human rights. And although I can't vote yet, I believe I have the right to have my own opinion. So, for the next week or so, I searched the Internet and read the Bible for myself to find these words my aunt was proclaiming existed.
And lemme tell you, they don't. Not once in the Bible does God outright say "homosexuality is wrong, sinful, and you will absolutely be condemned to hell for it."
I really believe that most Christians are making it out to be a sin while God has never said anything of the sort. This is why I definitely feel trapped being a member of the Roman Catholic religion where I'm one of very few who actually think this way. ;___;
Anyway, sorry for the long essay-type thing! XD I seen a discussion on gay rights and absolutely had to rant all over it.
tl;dr: I'm Catholic and I believe homosexuals should get married and adopt babies.
A while ago, during the week right before the presidential elections (in November 2012), my church decided to release a "guide" to voting for the "correct" president if you were still contemplating. I was outraged when I seen it because at the top of the list of things you shouldn't even consider (as in you should be against them no matter what) was Homosexual Marriage.
After raging over it for a while, I went to my aunt who is the Director of Religious Education and pretty much demanded to know what right she and the other officials of the church have to tell people who to vote for based on Homosexual Marriage and Gay Rights. Her response was something similar to "the Bible says that being gay is wrong," and "God clearly says that being homosexual is a sin."
I definitely wasn't going to stand for that because as the only open-minded Catholic kid in my church, I believed it wasn't gay rights, it was human rights. And although I can't vote yet, I believe I have the right to have my own opinion. So, for the next week or so, I searched the Internet and read the Bible for myself to find these words my aunt was proclaiming existed.
And lemme tell you, they don't. Not once in the Bible does God outright say "homosexuality is wrong, sinful, and you will absolutely be condemned to hell for it."
I really believe that most Christians are making it out to be a sin while God has never said anything of the sort. This is why I definitely feel trapped being a member of the Roman Catholic religion where I'm one of very few who actually think this way. ;___;
Anyway, sorry for the long essay-type thing! XD I seen a discussion on gay rights and absolutely had to rant all over it.
tl;dr: I'm Catholic and I believe homosexuals should get married and adopt babies.