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Question

What do modern day catholics think of gays and civil partnership. If you are gay and catholic do you feel you can still go to mass and be proud to be gay and catholic?

Answer 1

It makes no difference to God if you are gay or hetero so why should it make a difference to me? I have lots of friends who are gay and Catholic and who go to Mass the same as anyone else. Being proud isn't relevant.

By the way, the person below is wrong. Catholics do NOT believe it is a sin to be gay.

As I said already, God couldn't care less about your sexuality.

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

Answer 2

Every catholic has a different mind and opinion, and the catholic church doesn't rule the world. What is important is what is God's consideration on the subject.

There are different kinds of gay people, there are those who want try different things, the sexual organs react to contact, being remorse the only mode of control. There are person who are psychologically adapted to the understanding that homosexuality is normal, due to social programming, many have came out of such state after many years.

And the others, seem to be a chemical imbalance or spiritual influence unknown to human science. The devil and man have cause many problems on earth, including genetics alterations (kids born with two heads, missing something, mental imbalance, hormonal imbalance) etc.

In any case, that is why Jesus said do not judge. He also said: If I do what I do not want, then it is not me who does it but the sin that is in me. So we are not to judge, only the chosen ones and God and Jesus will judge. But one thing is clear though. That is that whether through dead and cleanliness by resurrection, or repentance and self control, they will have to be changed to come in the Kingdom of God. Because God created humans male and female, and homosexual sex is unnatural.

And those activities and behaviours do not belong in public view, because of the psychological impact they can cause in children. The same as it doesn't belong the promotion of divorced couples in television.

Answer 3

I am a practising Roman Catholic and I am a gay celibate. I participate fully in Church activities - I am a reader and also a Eucharistic Minister (assisting with the chalice at Mass).
It is not sinful to be gay, although we are asked to be celibate. However, I appreciate that not all can be and I am not here to judge anyone else. I have to remember that Christ's last command was to "love one another" - you cannot love someone unless you make sure that they are not in difficulties or lonely or in despair.
Civil Partnerships are simply that - non religious ceremonies,. Personally as they stop people being "ripped off" from their pensions, property etc., I can only say that they are a good thing.

Answer 4

My mother (World's No 1 Catholic!) says that it's not a sin to be gay - it's a sin to act on one's gay urges. Same as it's a sin to have sex outside marriage. It's the old 'hate the sin, love the sinner' routine.

Answer 5

You can't be gay and Catholic. It's like saying you're a vegetarian that only eats meat on Mondays. It's a conflict. You can call yourself Catholic if you're gay, but it's a misplaced title.

Being Catholic means that you follow the teachings of the Catholic church. Not some of them, not just the ones you choose, but all of them. Just as being a Christian means following the teachings of Christ. All of them.

And there's a difference between attempting to following the teachings and failing, and that of just choosing what you will follow. If you're not going to make the attempt then call yourself something else, a title that describes what you actually are.

Additional: I can proclaim to be a giraffe and have like minded individuals make the same proclamation. That doesn't change the truth that I am not a giraffe. If you don't fit the definition of "Catholic", then you aren't one. You can shout to the rooftops that you are one, but that still doesn't change anything. I don't need to be Catholic, Christian or have any religious beliefs to recognize this simple truth.

You can worship God all you want, as can anybody else. But if your religious beliefs are not those of any established religion, then why do you insist that those beliefs be changed and their believers changed to accommodate you and your beliefs? Isn't it rather hypocritical of you to preach and want acceptance, and yet think others have to change the core of their beliefs and themselves to suit you?

Form your own religion which includes and embraces your homosexuality, and give yourself an appropriate name. Quit pretending that you are something you aren't.

Answer 6

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

Homosexuality:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.

Civil Unoins:
2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery:

If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself.

1650 Today there are numerous Catholics in many countries who have recourse to civil divorce and contract new civil unions. In fidelity to the words of Jesus Christ - "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery" the Church maintains that a new union cannot be recognized as valid, if the first marriage was. If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Eucharistic communion as long as this situation persists. For the same reason, they cannot exercise certain ecclesial responsibilities. Reconciliation through the sacrament of Penance can be granted only to those who have repented for having violated the sign of the covenant and of fidelity to Christ, and who are committed to living in complete continence.


These are the Church's teachings on homosexuality and cicil unions. I am not gay but, given the teachings which I have shared with you, it is obvious that gay people can be proud of their Catholic Faith.

Answer 7

As a Catholic I don't care about what anyone gets up to with consenting adults as long as they are good humans

Answer 8

We believe homosexuality is a sin, however, I do think you can attend Mass, but I would ask your priest or go to a good Catholic website.

Answer 9

To be a gay is not a sin. Sin will come if gay do immoral things...............

Answer 10

Yes you can, especially if you are celibate.