NOM: The Catholic Church Demands That Homosexuals Remain Celibate

October 11, 2012 Uncategorized

“One group of people that I particularly want to call your attention to is the group of people who experience same-sex attraction as a permanent part of their personalities. Some of those people choose to describe themselves as ‘gay’ and identify with that attraction, but what I want to say is that that is a decision, to identify with the attraction. In effect, it’s a very momentous decision, but I am sure in a room this size there are people who know people who are struggling with same-sex attraction.

“What the Catholic Church teaches is very simple, that they can be saved, but they have to live a life of chastity — and that God does want them to be saved. In fact, their same-sex attraction can be their personal path to holiness. That can be the thing that gets them to Heaven: dealing with that, dealing with it in a good, and decent, and wholesome way.” – Jennifer Roback Morse, head of the Vatican front group NOM’s Ruth Institute. (Via Zack Ford at Think Progress)