Majority of U.S. Catholics back gay rights in survey

[Ceist]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

Good for them, they accepted evolution awhile back and now gay rights, they are showing some progress at least. In my opinion Catholics are the least obnoxious of all the Christian religions...They never get in your face with their beliefs. At least they never have to me.

The Roman Catholic church even apologised to Galileo....although it took them 400 years.

Somehow I don't think the old boys club in Rome will be supporting gay rights soon, even if the majority of Catholics do.

[Ceist]

Originally Posted by tvdxer

Indeed the multitude of Catholics have mistaken notions about sexual ethics. Homosexuality is a grave sin, but so is contraception. Is the average Catholic family size any higher than the average national family size? 98% of Catholic women have used contraception at some point in their lifetime.

Rather than treating them as formal heretics, I believe this issue needs to be addressed with tenderness and charity. Few Catholics, for example, know that missing Mass on Sunday is a grave sin, and I bet there is a small minority that does not even know the meaning of "mortal sin". Many have been led astray by the culture that surrounds them and even their own priests (though the newer breed of Catholic priests seem much more conservative and countercultural). It is Church teaching that to be fully responsible for an evil one must know that it is, indeed, evil.

Why not do what they used to do in the good old days?

Burn the "heretics" at the stake.

After torturing them.

(I guess they didn't think that was "evil"?)