I don’t think it’s geogating, the site tells me “you have used up your monthly free articles”. Anyway, thanks for your summary.
Where did I say all Christians were against it? And accepting that there are gay priests - as long as they are celibate - has nothing to do with the church’s position on gay marriage. Which was the position I mentioned.
Certainly there are Christian churches and ministers who support it. Note the big conflicts about it in some churches, which wouldn’t happen if there weren’t people on the correct side.
Including the fact that the United Methodist Church has undergone a schism over the past few years, which was entirely driven by disputes over acceptance of homosexuality, among both clergy and members.
That is the dilemma of the Catholic Church: if the Vatican accepted homosexuality as non-sinful and became more liberal regarding women, including ordaining them, they’d surely cause a schism, and schisms for the Catholic Church have been nothing but a horror and a trauma since the Reformation. If they keep their traditional stances, they’ll keep losing liberal members in droves.
It has been suggested that a reason why the RC church has such an institutional problem with illicit sexual activity is that the whole edifice is based on their “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding adult heterosexual activity in the priesthood.
It doesn’t mean that the P church approves of unfaithfulness and unchasteness, just that they don’t think singling it out is effective or just. See also “A Scarlet Letter”.
Your cite (in your next post) does not support that assertion. It says that unspecified surveys have found that anywhere from 15% to 60% of US priests “are gay” but it does not seen to say anything about how many are sexually active (gay or otherwise) while in the priesthood. (@puzzlegal has a fairly comprehensive summary in her post several posts above this one.)
This always happens in any thread that touches upon religion. It’s always okay to return to the original topic of such threads.
The practice of Judaism is very dependent on genealogy and the Levitical sacrifice system. As a Christian these matters have been abrogated. The laws are used by Christians as a spiritual illustration of the Jewish significance of what Jesus did. Once again, I am no longer a Christian (I am Baha’i), but have extensive knowledge about Christianity.
Huh? The practice of Judaism hasn’t been very dependant on the levitical sacrifice system since 70 CE, nearly 2000 years ago.
There are laws regarding sacrificial systems without a Temple (like the tabernacle in the desert). In any case, it is in the Torah, so it matters to those it matters to.
The fact that it’s in the Torah and Talmud means that there’s still an obligation to study the laws of sacrifice, but they have been completely irrelevant to everyday Jewish life since 70 CE (there were circumstances in which sacrifice was sometimes performed outside the Temple, but none of those have applied at any point since 70 CE).
My late parents were in this category. They supported my interfaith marriage, my daughter when she came out as a trans woman, favored socialized medicine, and were strongly pro-immigrant. They were saddened by the attitudes of people they’d known for decades coming to the surface in 2016.