The Catholic Church is the True Home for Those Who Identify as LGBTQ

[Michie]

“I am a queer Catholic. When will the church feel like home?” This question was posed by a young woman named Grace Doerfler in a recent essay in America magazine. As someone who once lived life as a gay man and who has now converted to the Catholic Church and found there a welcome home, I am always interested in those who identify as LGBTQ and argue that the Catholic Church is not a home for them. These narratives are always the same: the only conversion that is ever discussed in these sorts of complaints is how the Church needs to change to suit them.

Doerfler’s essay is no different. She begins by letting her readers know that though she is Catholic, she has felt more comfortable of late in an Episcopalian Church because, as she tells us, “I often question if I can truly find home in this church, which often seems to go to great lengths to make people who love the way I do feel unwelcome in the Body of Christ.” In her essay, she speaks in flowery “spiritualese” of her Catholic faith and her “queer” identity:

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The Catholic Church is the True Home for Those Who Identify as LGBTQ

 

[anna ~ grace]

Yep. The Church doesn’t try to “deprogram” people. It acknowledges homosexual inclinations and desires, and asks us to sacrifice acting on those desires in the heart and in the flesh as a way to carry our Cross and follow Christ. It’s much healthier.

 

[Lost4words]

We love the person not what they do or represent.

LGBTQ is an illness. Brought about by the evil one.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

I tell you. Some of the bravest guys in the Catholic Church are the members of Courage. They pick up their crosses daily and follow Jesus.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Grace: "It was through the Word becoming flesh that God chose to encounter her people"

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What a donkey.