Kansas City Faith Blogger Considers Pope's Recent LGBTQ Advocacy

Blogger Bill has done a great deal of KC's scholarship on the issue of faith life and the LGBT community but his analogy is a bit flawed if only given that LGBT "science" has always been sketchy and lacking any provable data.

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WEe've always thought about this aspect of the culture/religious war as an issue of liberty and/or conscience . . . Depending on your brand of superstition . . .

In the end everyone stands alone before the Creator in order to justify where they stick it amid a consensual relationship. 

As always, Bill is far more thoughtful . . .

What science and sociologists are learning about issues of human sexuality should at least make religious leaders want to understand those lessons and see if they reveal distorted thinking behind certain expressions of doctrine. That's one of the things that happened to the Catholic Church after it recognized that its condemnation of Galileo for suggesting that Earth revolves around the sun -- and not the other way around -- was flawed. The church changed its teaching.

Will that kind of change happen in my lifetime with the Catholic condemnation of homosexuality as "objectively disordered"? Almost certainly not. And maybe never.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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You decide . . . 

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