Welcoming and
Accompanying Our Brothers and Sisters with Same-Sex Attraction.
Despite its title,
the conference, which drew about 400 participants, struck an
unwelcome tone, claiming gay sex is harmful and urging LGBT
parishioners to remain celibate.
Riccardo described
how he explains to teenagers the sinfulness of gay sex without being
too explicit.
“This is the
question which is asked by junior-high kids: Why does God hate gays?”
he rhetorically asked.
“Here's the image
that I use,” he said.
“What if I just
rip open a bagel, I take it, and I cram it in my ear. What would you
say?”
The teens usually
respond by saying that the bagel “doesn't go there.”
“I say,
'Exactly.' That will ruin your ear canal,” Riccardo said.
Another speaker,
Dr. Timothy Flanigan, lectured on the risks of gay sex, saying that
“anal sex is risky, dangerous … And oral sex also carries with it
its own risks as well,” seemingly unaware that such acts are also
carried out by opposite-sex couples.
Archbishop Allen Vigneron praised the Catholic clergy and lay people who attended the conference.
The archbishop told them they are helping people with same-sex
attraction learn “how to grow in chaste continence" to "share in the
chastity of Jesus Christ. That’s the goal.”
Dr. Timothy Flanigan gave a lecture entitled “HIV and Other Health Risks
Associated with Men Who Have Sex with Men" in which he warned
ominously:
"...male sex, anal sex facilitates the spread of all sorts of diseases
... bacterial infections, parasitic infections ... anal sex is risky,
dangerous. ... And oral sex also carries with it its own risks as well."
If this is their idea of being inclusive, I'll take the honesty of their old ways.
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