Gay Catholics - now there's an oxymoron. What is it with these gays, anyway? Not content with their flashy, x-rated parades and screaming "Gay pride!", they now have infiltrated our Churches to push their gay agenda.
C'mon, now. I'm willing to bet that most people reading the headline, Gay Catholics, had thoughts along those lines. Be honest. Didn't you?
That's the sad facts fundamentalist love to push.
The real fact is homosexuals are everywhere, in every walk of life and many are Christians who believe in and love God as much as any other Christian. If you refuse to believe that, there is no point in reading any further.
I will admit the headline shocked me, though. I figured most gays raised in a Catholic household would grow up and turn their backs on the Church the same as the Church had turned its back on them.
Apparently, their faith in God is much stronger than their faith in a Pope, who is nothing more than a man who puts his pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else.
Pope John Paul II had said that homosexuals should be treated with compassion, but homosexuality was a sin and gays shouldn't have sex. The new Pope maintained during that time that homosexuals were "intrinsically evil".
Now that he's Pope, no wonder many gay Catholics see a new Dark Ages where homosexuals will be so marginalized by the Church, they'll be pushed off the Holy page.
Catholicism, with a membership of 1.1 billion worldwide, hardly looks to be a dying religion. With strong homophobic feelings running rampant throughout the Catholic Church - and many other Christian Churches - the Pope's continued harsh rhetoric many would term hate may drive gay Catholics to other Churches, but the loss in membership would hardly raise eyebrows at the Vatican much less threaten to bring the Church to its knees.
The gay problem solved - hate 'em until they leave.
But when the Catholic divorcees, birth control users, abortion supporters, stem cell research advocates, and women rights believers join the homosexual exodus - as they already have done in America and Europe - more than just eyebrows will be raised at the Vatican.
Let's hope Pope Benedict XVI shocks everyone and tackles these controversial topics head on. And let's all pray he leads the Catholic Church of Pope John Paul II's reign safely out of the Middle Ages and into the New millennium with real progressive thinking through Divine inspiration.
Being Catholic and gay needn't be an oxymoron nor be judged as being at odds with God.
Ask the gay Catholic sitting in the pew next to you. I bet there's at least one.
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