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echo: r_catholic
to: ChapelMouse
from: Dave Heil
date: 2007-03-29 13:54:34
subject: Re: Anglican Study Guide: Listening to Gay and Lesbian People

From: Dave Heil 

ChapelMouse wrote:
> Daniel S. Vieira wrote:
>
> 
>  >  So homosexuals led by the Spirit would pray to the
>> Lord for strength to stay away from such sexual behaviors, and not
>> accept a "gay lifestyle" (with all that entails) as correct.
>
> Pure ignorance.  There is no "gay lifestyle".  There are many
> different gay people, living their lives in many different
> ways, no different than straights.
>
> 
>> If the State wants to allow same-sex unions and give homosexuals
>> marriage rights, that's not going to affect me or anyone I know.
>
> Probably it does affect someone you know.  We are indeed
> everywhere.  They just haven't come out to you.
>
> Maybe you would be less ignorant if you made an effort to
> get to know someone whom this *would* affect.  Like a real
> gay person, perhaps. That's what "listening" is all about.
>
> 
>
>>  But, if such people want to come into my Church,
>
> *Your* church -- I thought it was God's Church.
>
"We'd be rid of Steenson, and we'd get our church back."
                    --Karen Winters posting as Chapel Mouse

*Your* church?  I thought it was God's church.

Dave Heil

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