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You could have responded and said you didn't say "most of you and the rest of the LIBRULS BE EVIL" any of the things in post #20, but what would be the point of denying your words? Whatever your motive, I see your "liberalism" as ultimately undermining Catholic teaching. In regards to others...

So now he is "ex-gay?" and that means he is a liar? Mmm. Due to the nature of sexual perversion, I don't think it is necessary to air the dirtly laundry except to the priest. I do not think there is any need to elaborate, it seems a face value statement needing no more clarification. I am...

To give you an example of your style... you responded regarding the Lambeth 1998 and the CCC citation with the following: The CCC and Lambeth 1998 only suggest that people struggle that homosexuals acts are disordered. It does not state that the sexual orientation is inheritated, except by...

Considering your rhetoric so far, I tend to think your response to the whole homosexual issue to be lax. Normally when I get an Anglican who sees the crisis for what it is, they tend to be more encouraged. I get more high-fives for standing on conviction by many of the Anglicans I do know, and...

You have the ability to band with the members of your congregation and influence with your Sunday School, bible studies, and other community functions to say to those who represent you to your national church that homosexual acts are unscriptural, outside Anglican tradition, and unreasonable...

Because as a former ECUSA and you still being Anglican, I had no choice but to leave the ECUSA at the time because there was no traditional Anglican parish within an economical distance. I tried with persuasion and prayer to hope to find in my local ECUSA parish the tenacity to fight such...

What kind of elaboration are you trying to get from him? I think it a rude request. I feel like you think somehow a reorientation means you longer face temptations. I think the closer you get to Christ sometimes means the temptations intensify because Satan and his minions want to destroy...

Behavior is something that can be controled as you said, but the problem with behavior is determining how that behavior came to be either through nature or through nurture. If you wanted to rationalize the point, the position of professing homosexual Christians is that it is within their nature...

[Antigone;56191538]And please quote to me where I told you that that wasn't the case. Underlined in the post you replied to semper_virens, you made a statement from which you made a generalization assumed as factual. It seems that if Semper_virens is citing from experience, that your...

Antigone, I think there are conversion moments, not just from religion to religion, but also from any worldview to another. The battle we fight is not against flesh and blood, it is a battle that starts with the mind. Orientation may be a physical attraction, but you can change the environment...

I wanted to add one more thought. When I went to have a penitant dialogue with an Eastern Orthodox priest, his suggestion was right on the money. Due to the nature of sexual sins, the response needs to match the nature. You do not attach physical sins with spiritual actions; i.e. just...

I am not sure where you get your research, nor have I heard through the websites of Exodus International nor Catholic Courage on some sort of "electroshock therapy." The person in the article in the OP certainly does not suggest any of the three bullet comments you give, so I think those...

If a person who struggles cannot be chaste and under self control, they are not fit for the ministry. Lambeth 1998 is clear on that, but what you have is a violation on the part of Gene Robinson who is practicing and living with his male partner, not to mention he has children and divorced his...

I am reminded of St. Francis of Assisi's temptation with the protitute, in the same chapter as his discussion with a Muslim ruler. How is it that St. Francis of Assisi could strip himself naked and not sin? I think there is a point within a saint where there is no temptation when the sin...

homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered--CCC homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture--Lambeth 1998 What it does say here suggests a part of the corruption of human nature. Homosexual acts are a choice, homosexual attractions may be learned or, even for the sake of argument...

Ebia, I say this for your benefit and the benefit to share with other Anglicans. The Catholic Church I think would agree with the Lambeth Council's position in 1998 I.10.. Lambeth Conference Archives - 1998 - Resolution I.10 If you compare this to the Catechism of the Catholic Church in...

Being a convert to Catholicism, it was not really the Mass that persuaded me. It was the doctrines and the morals. The function of Mass, not its form, only concerned me. Yes, the traditional Mass is lovely as much as St. John Chrysostom's Divine Liturgy practiced by the Eastern Orthodox and...

I think EVE is right, there needs to be more female balloon. We'll blow it out of proportion; time to put females on crucifixes so they can get equal visibility everywhere.

Exceptional for such a short essay. I have heard comments that Ronald Knox's book "The Belief of Catholics" was as great an apology of the Christian faith as C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity."

I wish there was a black friday for morgages. I think Dave Ramsey's "new cool"--becoming debt-free--is the best thing. Didn't go anywhere either this year. There comes a time where you have enough stuff, although it would be nice to get an iPad so I can take my logos software, universalis...