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Michie said:
Are you saying clergy could secretly marry each other? Lol! Not sure where you are going with this. :sorry: (Remember I’m kind of loopy with this illness).
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Woops no way did I mean that, lol.

I'm sort of lackadaisically typing here and I must have not been careful enough with my words.

I meant that any gay cardinals as of today who joined the priesthood before it became socially acceptable to "come out" and "get married" after gay marriage was made legal, might have joined the priesthood to stave off suspicion that they were gay.
 
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Lady Bug said:
Woops no way did I mean that, lol.

I'm sort of lackadaisically typing here and I must have not been careful enough with my words.

I meant that any gay cardinals as of today who joined the priesthood before it became socially acceptable to "come out" and "get married" after gay marriage was made legal, might have joined the priesthood to stave off suspicion that they were gay.
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Ohhhh! Lol! I understand what you are saying now. I guess that’s possible but that quite the commitment!
 
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Michie said:
Yeah. I got pneumonia in February and they discovered things on the cat scan.I got some surgeries coming up. Kidney stuff, etc. Thank you for the prayers. Deeply appreciated. :heart:
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Oh no. i pray you feel better soon.
 
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Michie said:
Are you saying clergy could secretly marry each other? Lol! Not sure where you are going with this. :sorry: (Remember I’m kind of loopy with this illness).
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No. But that the stigma of being homosexual and unmarried in the past should be a thing of the past because now they can get married. No ‘need’ to hide their homosexuality by being a priest. They can freely get married now. In theory then there is no more impetus for them to hide in the priesthood.

Hope and pray you are better soon.
 
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FaithT said:
But why would so many Catholic clergy be gay anyway?
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I don’t know. That’s a good question. Maybe because they knew they couldn’t act on their desires, so they went to the seminary? Again, I’m not saying that is accurate, it’s just a guess.
 
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FaithT said:
I think what bothers me is what little I’ve read about the Lavender Mafia. I’ve always looked up to priests and feel sort of let down that the Catholic clergy has that culture within it.
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Yes. Many within the lavender mafia are trying to destroy the Church within.
 
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chevyontheriver said:
The problem is that I have read it several times. And so have many priests who have performed gay weddings supported, they claim, by FS.
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Well, just because some priests are wrong doesn't make the document state that gay marriage is OK.

BTW, how many priests have you seen perform gay weddings? I've never seen any.
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Well, just because some priests are wrong doesn't make the document state that gay marriage is OK.

BTW, how many priests have you seen perform gay weddings? I've never seen any.
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None.
 
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FaithT said:
None, except on tv or online. But nobody I personally know.
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They aren’t marriages, though. It’s only the blessing of the couple. Fr. James Martin, SJ immediately comes to mind.
 
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I agree
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I still think Fr. James Martin, SJ, is sending the wrong message and he needs to be clear that sin is sin.
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Well, just because some priests are wrong doesn't make the document state that gay marriage is OK.

BTW, how many priests have you seen perform gay weddings? I've never seen any.
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I have never attended any. Are you claiming that there never were any? There is video, you know.
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He needs to be disciplined imo.
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And sent permanently to the mission field to the penguins in Antarctica.
 
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Lady Bug said:
Blessing of the couple is such a slippery slope that it isn't even funny, though.
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And that’s the thing. Many present themselves as couples. They do not look like individual blessings. I’ve even seen priests wear rainbow sashes while doing so.
 
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Michie said:
And that’s the thing. Many present themselves as couples. They do not look like individual blessings. I’ve even seen priests wear rainbow sashes while doing so.
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I mourn the death of Pope Francis as a person but not as a Pope. Does that sound cold? Oh well :|
(I say that because he is the one that did this blessing stuff of the same-sex couples)
 
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