Sorry, I don’t know anything about any gay Marxist agenda. Sounds silly and made up to me.
I didn’t blame the Catholic Church alone for it, but I would say that some of the attitudes held by the church do contribute to the victimization of members of the LGBT community.
Maybe you should have continued reading down the rest of the page, because they also say this:
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While the Church does recognize homosexuality as disordered, this does not mean that the Church is uncompassionate to those who suffer from the disorder. The
Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "Men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies . . . must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided."3
We have to remember that all people are created in the image of God and deserve to be treated as such, no matter what their behavior. We make a distinction between person and behavior, sometimes expressed as "hate the sin, love the sinner."
The Catechism describes homosexual acts as "intrinsically disordered": "They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."4
So we deplore acts of discrimination or unkindness against homosexual persons,
but we insist on speaking the truth about the nature of homosexual acts. This is not a phobia. It is compassion together with frank recognition of the nature of a disordered condition.
The Catholic Church
opposes homosexual activity because it is intrinsically disordered, an abuse of our human nature. But legalizing same-sex marriage would also have harmful effects on society, as we will see in the remainder of this special report.”
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So basically they’re saying, “these people are sick and ‘intrinsically disordered,’ and they aren’t capable of participating in affectionate, complementary relationships and we insist on reminding them and pointing out how messed up they are, but we won’t be unkind or disrespectful to them as people.” And LGBT people are supposed to take this as a positive message? They’re saying straight up, “You guys are different from everyone else, and there’s something wrong with you.” Do you think it makes people feel good about themselves? “Yay the church thinks we’re sick perverts, but they say they won’t be mean to us!” Don’t you see the contradictory nature of those statements?
Not enough then, obviously.
There are some, yes. And inevitably the airing of such things results in some kind of uproar from people who don’t agree with “gay lifestyles” and the like.
You mean Christians of every stripe losing court battles for discriminating against people? Aww those poor Christians.
Has it? If it has, then we obviously still have a problem on our hands.
And yet you’re citing cases where Christians want to refuse service to people in the LGBT community. Guess we haven’t come far enough now have we?
EnCourage is not a bad start, but they state on their website that they hold the “orthodox position on the immorality of homosexual acts even as it respects the human dignity of persons who have homosexual feelings,” while “fostering personal chastity and sexual abstinence,” for LGBT members. Does a life of personal chastity and sexual abstinence sound fulfilling? Not to me. It doesn’t sound like they have a right to live “just like everybody else.” It sounds like the Catholic Church thinks they should live a life
unlike most everybody else. I guess it’s a plus that they don’t try to force people to change their sexual orientation (or they’ve realized that doesn’t work). But this is exactly the kind of attitude we’re talking about that is harmful to peoples’ sense of self-worth.
Maybe their lives are “nasty” because of attitudes like yours. Maybe they’re “lonely” because the Catholic Church (among many others) seems to think they need to live lonely, celibate lives. Did that ever occur to you?
As to your claim about their “short lives”:
“Over the past few months we have learnt of a number of reports regarding a paper we published in the
International Journal of Epidemiology on the gay and bisexual life expectancy in Vancouver in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
1 From these reports it appears that our research is being used by select groups in US
2 and Finland
3 to suggest that gay and bisexual men live an unhealthy lifestyle that is destructive to themselves and to others. These homophobic groups appear more interested in restricting the human rights of gay and bisexuals rather than promoting their health and well being.
The aim of our research was never to spread more homophobia, but to demonstrate to an international audience how the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men can be estimated from limited vital statistics data.
In our paper, we demonstrated that in a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 21 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality continued, we estimated that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years would not reach their 65th birthday. Under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre were experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by men in Canada in the year 1871.
In contrast, if we were to repeat this analysis today the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men would be greatly improved. Deaths from HIV infection have declined dramatically in this population since 1996. As we have previously reported there has been a threefold decrease in mortality in Vancouver as well as in other parts of British Columbia.4
Gay life expectancy revisited
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This one is in direct response to the Cameron study cited in your link:
"Obituaries in gay community newspapers do not provide a representative sampling of the community. This is evident in the fact that only only 2% of the Cameron group's obituaries were for lesbians. Moreover, community newspapers tend overwhelmingly to report deaths due to AIDS (only 11% of Cameron's gay male obituaries were
not related to AIDS). In addition, community newspapers tend
not to print obituaries for people who are not actively involved in the local gay community, those who are in the closet, and those whose loved ones simply don't submit an obituary to a local gay newspaper.
The Cameron group's gay obituary study reports many numbers and statistics. However, they are absolutely worthless for estimating the life expectancy of gay men and lesbians.”
Critique of "Obituary Study" by the Paul Cameron Group
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And then there’s this:
“In the first study to look at the consequences of anti-gay prejudice for mortality, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals who lived in communities with high levels of anti-gay prejudice have a shorter life expectancy of 12 years on average compared with their peers in the least prejudiced communities. "The results of this study suggest a broadening of the consequences of prejudice to include premature death," noted the study's lead author, Mark Hatzenbuehler, PhD, assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences. The study is online in the journal
Social Science & Medicine.”
LGB individuals living in anti-gay communities die early | EurekAlert! Science News
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So it appears that once again discrimination and prejudice are responsible for the “nasty, short lives” of these people.
Maybe the "gay Marxists" are right after all! Whoever they are.