wholeheartedly concur! Exercise is one of the keys to Happiness. Thank you for sharing!
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Deacon TimAug 26, 2013
And you are simply wrong that the Church teaches that you are intrinsically sinful by existing if you are gay. Yes, the Church teaches that the attraction is disordered and I can understand how someone has issues with that and can misinterpret it. But the Church does NOT and never has called a person intrinsically sinful. Acts are sins, not people. The Church calls upon everyone to love one's neighbor and specifically teaches that unjust treatment of ANYONE is a sin. Only the diocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis in Minnesota has made any statements regarding those who come to communion in a rainbow sash and rightly so, because they seek to politicize what is the most sacred act we do. No one stops to ask if you are gay, actively in a gay relationship or having gay sex before you receive communion. We never judge your soul when you come up seeking to receive in a respectul manner. That's why the rainbow sash issue was decided that way in one diocese. It isn't seen as coming to receive, but rather to make a statement. It turns an act of unity with God into a statement about one's self.
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wholeheartedly concur! Exercise is one of the keys to Happiness. Thank you for sharing!
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And you are simply wrong that the Church teaches that you are intrinsically sinful by existing if you are gay. Yes, the Church teaches that the attraction is disordered and I can understand how someone has issues with that and can misinterpret it. But the Church does NOT and never has called a person intrinsically sinful. Acts are sins, not people. The Church calls upon everyone to love one's neighbor and specifically teaches that unjust treatment of ANYONE is a sin. Only the diocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis in Minnesota has made any statements regarding those who come to communion in a rainbow sash and rightly so, because they seek to politicize what is the most sacred act we do. No one stops to ask if you are gay, actively in a gay relationship or having gay sex before you receive communion. We never judge your soul when you come up seeking to receive in a respectul manner. That's why the rainbow sash issue was decided that way in one diocese. It isn't seen as coming to receive, but rather to make a statement. It turns an act of unity with God into a statement about one's self.