NEWS.- It seems like a truism in the title but there are many people who do not understand that reality, that one can be gay and Christian, that one can be a lesbian and Christian and that one can be transsexual and Christian. And it can be believed that it was precisely God who created these realities. As Mike Roper, 74, states in the documentary "Owning Our Faith", (something like "appropriating our faith"): «It is not a simple question of acceptance, or of tolerating ourselves. You have to encourage us to be who we are. We are creation of God. And denying that is denying that He (God) knows what the hell he's doing«.
Yesterday we published on our Facebook page the photo that heads this article and the reactions it provoked (insults, accusations of provocation ...), have led us to explain what that image responds to. Well, the two women kissing in front of an altar illustrate the information from the start-up in November of last year of the “Owning Our Faith” project, which brings together a group of regular LGBT people from the church of San Pablo Apóstol of New York, determined to publicly address the debate on the relationship between the Catholic Church and sexual and gender minorities.
Because while Pope Francis talks about tolerance and acceptance, the Church that manages the message of faith puts a high price, to renounce being who you are. Sexual orientation is not considered a sin, but sexual acts do. God loves you, but the curia decides that she does not want you in that clubYou believe in God, but those who administer their faith set conditions for you. In the aforementioned documentary, Matt Putorty states, "The church tells gay people that they have to be celibate, it's like saying 'you can't live fully.' And that is inherently discriminatory ».
Every day thousands of people kiss before an altar after getting married and nobody seems a provocation or something disgusting. Surely God only sees love in the depths of their hearts, be they of the gender they are.
25 years ago was founded ACGIL, the Association of Gays and Lesbians), Gayles.tv he interviewed them in the reportage "ACGIL, a matter of faith" that we invite you to view by clicking here.
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