tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post2150959014469413936..comments2024-02-22T22:14:28.796-06:00Comments on The Wild Reed: Catholic and Gay in the UKMichael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-39703189191183038882009-04-14T16:43:00.000-05:002009-04-14T16:43:00.000-05:00colkoch, I am not sure how that actually relates t...colkoch, I am not sure how that actually relates to this particular issue.<br /><br />It's like if I said to my little brother "don't pick at the wall paper it ruins the walls" and he said to me "your room is messy".<br />Well my room may well be messy, and that may well be a bad thing but it doesn't mean he should pick at the wallpaper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-77236778059228345882009-04-14T13:51:00.000-05:002009-04-14T13:51:00.000-05:00Great read Michael.
Kleinzeit3, the Church has ...Great read Michael. <br /><br />Kleinzeit3, the Church has also never been shy about hiding and denying the sexual abuses of it's celibate clergy. Seems to me the language "intrinsic disorder" is either a self descriptor or a bad case of projection.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-36224748063213848462009-04-13T18:21:00.000-05:002009-04-13T18:21:00.000-05:00Official teaching on homosexuality was surely only...Official teaching on homosexuality was surely only spelled out then because the very concept of fixed sexual identity only really started to evolve in the late 19th and 20th centuries (and the Church is slow)?<br /><br />It's not like before that she was shy about condemning buggary.<br />And all that is mean't by "intrinsic disorder" is "has a strong inclination to engage in buggary which we have always condemned".<br /><br />So all in all I find that argument rather disingenuous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com