The Catholic Church and the Nature of Man

Red Eye did a two page article on the Catholic Church's new statement about gay men entering the priesthood.  I had a couple of minutes before lunch and decided to send in my 4.7 cents (damn inflation!) to the paper regarding the issue.

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I went to 12 years of Lutheran parochial school and was very active in the church growing up.  I am actually grateful for that because I couldn't imagine the emotional scars I might have received as a gay black man coming through the Catholic church or any other church for that matter.  Now that I am an adult I thank the gods that I'm not religious anymore!  Because to be religious you have to buy into a lot of dogma that has little or nothing to do with spirituality or that personal relationship to a higher power.

 

The fact that the Catholic church came out with such a statement which essentially blocks gay men from entering the priesthood doesn't surprise me.  What does surprise me are the number of gay men who would want to be priests in the first place!  Let's face it, the Vatican hasn't exactly welcomed the gay community with open arms!  Neither has the Republican party but that's a different letter.  Just a simple message to all my gay brothers who are considering joining the priesthood.  Though your faith may tell you otherwise please remember that for the past 2000 years the Catholic church has been run by men.  Men by their very nature are flawed which means their decisions may be flawed.  The purchase of penance and the Inquisition??  Hello!  This is simply a case of another flawed human trying to interpret the mind of God.  We all know how well that works out.  Can you say Waco?!  Let's not forget that the church that doesn't want to let you in is the same church that hid pedophiles for years.  Hmm...must have been God's will.