Comments on: Celibate, Gay and Under Attack http://bustedhalo.com/features/celibate-gay-and-under-attack-part-1 an online magazine for spiritual seekers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matthew Rand http://bustedhalo.com/features/celibate-gay-and-under-attack-part-1/comment-page-1#comment-10737 Matthew Rand Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:38:53 +0000 http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=834#comment-10737 I am a chaste "gay" in a domestic partnership, but I don't believe gay men should be priests. This is because there is an inequality of the nature of those gay people who enter the priesthood, and the straight people who enter the priesthood. A man who does not have same-sex attractions gives up marriage, something licit for him, to join the priesthood. A man who does have same-sex attractions gives up homosexual sex, something is illicit for him anyway, to join the priesthood. The sacrifice is not the same, and so the understanding is also not the same. I am a chaste “gay” in a domestic partnership, but I don’t believe gay men should be priests. This is because there is an inequality of the nature of those gay people who enter the priesthood, and the straight people who enter the priesthood.

A man who does not have same-sex attractions gives up marriage, something licit for him, to join the priesthood.

A man who does have same-sex attractions gives up homosexual sex, something is illicit for him anyway, to join the priesthood.

The sacrifice is not the same, and so the understanding is also not the same.

]]> By: Midwest gay priest http://bustedhalo.com/features/celibate-gay-and-under-attack-part-1/comment-page-1#comment-1949 Midwest gay priest Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:38:00 +0000 http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=834#comment-1949 Thank you for this excellent interview. I am gay and was ordained a priest. After 12 years I left the active ministry because in conscience I could not remain serving the people of God in an institution which considers my being gay an intrinsic disorder. I was a celibate gay priest the whole time I served in ministry. I knew many gay priests, some who were celibate and some who were not. I would still be serving in active ministry if the church did not look upon gay men and women as being disordered in name or behavior. Unfortunately, I do not see that teaching ever changing. I miss serving in priestly ministry very much. But there are some sacrifices I must make at the expense of not being able to do what I dearly love. Pax. Thank you for this excellent interview. I am gay and was ordained a priest. After 12 years I left the active ministry because in conscience I could not remain serving the people of God in an institution which considers my being gay an intrinsic disorder. I was a celibate gay priest the whole time I served in ministry. I knew many gay priests, some who were celibate and some who were not. I would still be serving in active ministry if the church did not look upon gay men and women as being disordered in name or behavior. Unfortunately, I do not see that teaching ever changing. I miss serving in priestly ministry very much. But there are some sacrifices I must make at the expense of not being able to do what I dearly love. Pax.

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