Gay people are made in the image of God

June is a favourite month for Gay Pride marches, and this year they have taken on particular poignancy because of the massacre at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Many gay people saw this attack as homophobic. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, said recently that the Catholic Church owed gays an apology for having contributed to a climate of homophobia. Pope Francis, asked about this at a press conference on board the papal aircraft, agreed. “I believe that the Church not only must say it’s sorry … to this person that is gay that it has offended,” he said. “But it must say it’s sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work.”

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Comment by: John of Seattle

Posted: 02/07/2016 21:27:38

" ... in the image of God, who made them the way they are." If you mean that some of us have tendencies to anger or an inability to get up and take action, I understand. Even if you mean that Joe is attracted to men and not women, there's room for your statement. But if you are excluding human culture and choice in this statement, it's flat out mistaken. We straights are attracted to women. May I, a married man, take up with a woman not my wife? Of course not, it's a sin to do so. Likewise there is a domain of sinfulness in much of the LGBT culture. We as Catholics are not reaching out as we should unless this is a part of the effort.

I find Lonergan's cognitional structure hugely informative about the image of God. We Homo sapiens, indeed, wonder and understand, reflect and judge, ponder and decide. It's a triple cord of operations: understanding, judgment, decision. Very much in the image of the Trinity. All human persons, straight, gay, conservative, leftist, and so on, I have ever talked to or read, perform these operations. They are all incarnate spirits so far as I can tell.

Comment by: Terence Weldon

Posted: 01/07/2016 11:03:50

Thank you for this affirmation. Church teaching on the need for respect, compassion and sensitivity is clear - but is widely ignored.