Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Gay priests

In what exceeds the idiocy of “don’t ask; don’t tell” in the United States military, the Roman Catholics have decided that gays, as with women and married men, are unfit to serve in the church. Why people would want to serve an organization that hates them and considers them second-class citizens escapes me, but there it is. Father Bernard Lynch, an openly gay priest, has some thoughts on the matter:

Of course I have had a hard time being gay within the Roman Catholic Church. But the big religious orders – the Dominicans, the Franciscans—have long protected their members against Rome, and mine—African Missions – has stood up for me.

I’ve been active in the issue of homosexuality and the Church for 30 years. We always thought things would get worse before they got better – and things have got worse. These guidelines represent an extraordinarily regressive step.

In encouraging people to distance themselves from their homosexuality – to reject it – you are encouraging dishonesty within the self. If you do not accept yourself as you are made by God then in what sense are you being true to yourself or the Church you serve?

It will result in great psychological dissidence which is not just destructive to the individual – but also, ultimately, to the Church.

In the end, either we are all created equal, or we are not. It does not matter whether you believe in a Creator or not.