My self is God's gift to myself

The Curt Jester has some less than supportive things to say about people he clearly can't relate to. It was a rude enough shock for Joseph Nadeau to have the compassionate and accepting Church, which he did not expect in the first place, snatched away like a rug from beneath his feet. Expecting him to settle, now, for a Church that forgives any sinner so long as he's straight is just rubbing salt in the wound.

From the Jester's combox:

Why is it so difficult to see the difference in the Church's teaching on homosexual orientation and homosexual practices?

Haven't you seen that gay shepherd movie? They weren't really cowboys; let's not fool ourselves because of some big hats. Our orientation must be obeyed. To do otherwise I'd call blasphemy, if I used such words. Whatever we are, it's normal for me, normal for you. Nadeau pointed out in the Jester's source article that neither science nor psychology consider homosexuality to be "disordered," which sounds a lot like the "sinful nature" they used to talk about at the church my parents dragged me to when I was still talking to them.

Think of that beautiful deaf lesbian couple. They found a deaf sperm donor so they could have a deaf child together--wonderfully, a daughter, completely deaf in one ear and 90% in the other, if I remember correctly. They understand. They've taken something they had little control over and are making a lifestyle of it, celebrating who they are. Embracing it. So the little girl can't hear; her parents' critics are wondering what price she'll have to pay in never enjoying music. A small price, I say, for being the product of such visionaries. Whatever god made us, made us the way we are so we can express everything good about us in all our different ways. We don't always get to choose what we champion, but we do have to do it.

We can't expect someone in this day and age to refrain from expressing something as fundamentally definitive of our identity, our personhood, as homosexuality. It's the people who want to stop us, put is in a box in the attic, who are being pathological. Maybe they have to express themselves in restrictive and narrow ways, I have to leave room for them there, but they can't be allowed to spread, and they shouldn't be listened to or heard, or everything we want to bring to the table is threatened.

My self is God's gift to my self

The Curt Jester has some less than supportive things to say about people he clearly can't relate to. It was a rude enough shock for Joseph Nadeau to have the compassionate and accepting Church, which he did not expect in the first place, snatched away like a rug from beneath his feet. Expecting him to settle, now, for a Church that forgives any sinner so long as he's straight is just rubbing salt in the wound.

From the Jester's combox:

Why is it so difficult to see the difference in the Church's teaching on homosexual orientation and homosexual practices?

Haven't you seen that gay shepherd movie? They weren't really cowboys; let's not fool ourselves because of some big hats. Our orientation must be obeyed. To do otherwise I'd call blasphemy, if I used such words. Whatever we are, it's normal for me, normal for you. Nadeau pointed out in the Jester's source article that neither science nor psychology consider homosexuality to be "disordered," which sounds a lot like the "sinful nature" they used to talk about at the church my parents dragged me to when I was still talking to them.

Think of that beautiful deaf lesbian couple. They found a deaf sperm donor so they could have a deaf child together--wonderfully, a daughter, completely deaf in one ear and 90% in the other, if I remember correctly. They understand. They've taken something they had little control over and are making a lifestyle of it, celebrating who they are. Embracing it. So the little girl can't hear; her parents' critics are wondering what price she'll have to pay in never enjoying music. A small price, I say, for being the product of such visionaries. Whatever god made us, made us the way we are so we can express everything good about us in all our different ways. We don't always get to choose what we champion, but we do have to do it.

We can't expect someone in this day and age to refrain from expressing something as fundamentally definitive of our identity, our personhood, as homosexuality. It's the people who want to stop us, put is in a box in the attic, who are being pathological. Maybe they have to express themselves in restrictive and narrow ways, I have to leave room for them there, but they can't be allowed to spread, and they shouldn't be listened to or heard, or everything we want to bring to the table is threatened.