Roman Catholic Priests Support Gay Unions

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Roman Catholic Priests Support Gay Unions

Roman Catholic priests in The Netherlands are surprisingly pro- gay, a survey by De Gay Krant magazine has found. The magazine mailed a questionnaire to 783 parishes and got a response from 339 of them. Forty-two percent of the responses were anonymous. All but one priest said gays are welcome in his church. Ninety- five percent said sexually active gays are welcome to take communion -- a violation of church teaching. <b>Fifty-six percent said they would bless a homosexual union in their church and 83 percent said they would do so in private.</b>

Catholic teaching maintains that sexually active gays are living in "mortal sin." The soul of an individual who dies without confessing and being absolved of a mortal sin is condemned to Hell, the church teaches. During life, anyone who has committed a mortal sin and has not been absolved of it is barred from receiving communion. Receiving communion while living in mortal sin is itself an additional mortal sin.

The church's anti-gay doctrines are based on its beliefs that sexual acts are permissible only between opposite-sex spouses and that those acts must be open to the possibility of pregnancy. As such, birth control, oral sex and masturbation are also mortal sins.


I guess i can be a Catholic again.