• @baldingpudenda
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    1811 months ago

    So the vatican, after emphasizing homosexuality is a sin, has officially declared they are indeed people and worthy of blessing. I guess after blessing fornicators, blasphemers, adulterers, and the obscenely rich they realized it was ok.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      TeChNiCaLlY, under Catholic doctrine, being sexually attracted to or being in love romantically with someone of the same sex haven’t ever been a sin. Just having sex with them is. What’s new is that they are now willing to bless your sexless non-marriage homo life partnership. It’s simultaneously useless to any gay Catholics, and a huge middle finger to the more conservative side of the church.

      • Infiltrated_ad8271
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        11 months ago

        I just searched and it says “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind”. So if it is limited to practices doable with women… can I jerk off or suck cock?

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          It’s also based on Paul’s ramblings, so I’m not entirely clear how you get from the biblical text to the official Catholic doctrine.

        • Deconceptualist
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          311 months ago

          You’re asking that question to a cabal of judgy celibate men in robes…

          • @Jonna
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            311 months ago

            Officially “celibate”

            • @Burn_The_Right
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              111 months ago

              Children don’t count in the eyes of the lord.