phands
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A very stupid thing to say, given that a lot of priestly abuse was men on boys, which would generally be covered by "G"....but then he's religipous - stupid is natural...
http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-lgbtq-catholic/
Earlier this month, when Catholic bishops gathered for a Synod on “Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput made it clear that he had a problem with any reference to “LGBTQ Catholics.”Chaput claimed Catholics should stop using that term altogether because such groups simply didn’t exist.In a letter to his colleagues, he explained his (lack of) thinking:
… There is no such thing as an “LGBTQ Catholic” or a “transgender Catholic” or a “heterosexual Catholic”, as if our sexual appetites defined who we are; as if these designations described discrete communities of differing but equal integrity within the real ecclesial community, the body of Jesus Christ. This has never been true in the life of the Church, and is not true now. It follows that “LGBTQ” and similar language should not be used in Church documents, because using it suggests that these are real, autonomous groups, and the Church simply doesn’t categorize people that way.While he obviously tried to include “heterosexual” in there so as to not single out an already oppressed group of people, he ignored the simple fact that hetero relationships are the default option in the Church. They don’t have to refer to “straight” relationships because it’s assumed they all will be straight. Plus, there is language in the Catechism condemning same-sex physical acts, as if a married gay couple is committing a crime in the Church’s eyes by consummating their relationship.
http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-lgbtq-catholic/