You should temper your enthusiasm over this ruling...the issue of "Gay Rights" is by no means

TyroneIrish 25861 posts Joined: Oct 8, 2020

Posted 4:49 pm on Jun 17, 2021

"settled" as evidenced by the attached links. Acceptance of the LGBTQ community is definitely trending upwards...across the globe...here in the USA...and, within the U.S. Catholic Church...in fact, by a nearly 2 to 1 ratio, U.S. Catholics are accepting of those people.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-court-has-carved-out-one-religious-exemption-after-another-the-next-may-be-a-blow-to-lgbtq-rights/

"Project Blitz" will likely suffer the same fate that the similarly named WWII offensive on human rights had.

Link: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/02/how-catholics-around-the-world-see-same-sex-marriage-homosexuality/

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You should temper your enthusiasm over this ruling...the issue of "Gay Rights" is by no meansLink TyroneIrish 4:49pm · 6/17/21
- Do you categorize all people or just the gay ones? "those people" I am positive you just hurt IrishMac 5:44pm · 6/17/21
  - Thank you for that...we're talking about "People" here, who have a distinguishing characteristic. TyroneIrish 8:57pm · 6/17/21
    - No one has suggested people with that "distinguishing characteristic" don't have human rights. NedoftheHill 9:42pm · 6/17/21
- Catholics are accepting of "those people." Only the choices some people make are problematic. NedoftheHill 5:09pm · 6/17/21
  - It's not like all those people surveyed over decades are oblivious to the issues...they fully TyroneIrish 5:19pm · 6/17/21
    - Your point is unclear. Can you elaborate? Why do I "need to deal with" polls on religious belief? NedoftheHill 5:53pm · 6/17/21
      - A better phrasing (by me) would have been "you should...", but the message is still the same, the Link TyroneIrish 9:35pm · 6/17/21
        
        Your link-src on Doctrine is "not suitable nor eligible to teach Catholic theology" per JPII. Nice. NedoftheHill 10:52pm · 6/17/21
        
        If our Pope can say "Who am I to judge" when it comes to gays, why can't I dissent from current TyroneIrish 1:01am · 6/18/21
        
        The Pope won't judge people. Not his role. He does judge doctrine & through doctrine, behavior. NedoftheHill 11:19pm · 6/20/21
    - there's no debate, it is settledNT Hank the Tank 5:52pm · 6/17/21
  - Exactly. Polls are only as good as the question asked.NT BaronVonZemo 5:11pm · 6/17/21
- The issue of gay rights trumping religious rights has most certainly been clarified BaronVonZemo 4:55pm · 6/17/21
  - I get that you don't like the poll results...but "The Catholic Church" is not unified against the TyroneIrish 5:35pm · 6/17/21
    - I assume you put "The Catholic Church" in quotes so you can blur some lines somewhere? NedoftheHill 6:09pm · 6/17/21
      - The quotation marks are used to emphasize that there is no consensus within the Church on the issue TyroneIrish 9:55pm · 6/17/21
        
        All of those statements are either inaccurate or irrelevent. NedoftheHill 11:02pm · 6/17/21
        
        Take a closer look at my post)s)...I said that the Church's stand on the LGBTQ community "is" TyroneIrish 12:43am · 6/18/21
      - Very nicely said.NT BaronVonZemo 9:08pm · 6/17/21
    - The Catholic Church is not unified against the, but they are of a libleral slantNT Hank the Tank 5:55pm · 6/17/21
    - Welcome to the all appeasing progressives of today's society. IrishMac 5:47pm · 6/17/21
      - "Things were so much easier when..."...that IMO typifies the non-progressive view...not unlike the TyroneIrish 10:27pm · 6/17/21

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