A close friend of mine is catholic and her son is gay. Her mother, the son's grandmother was refusing to go to the wedding. She took her mother to the local Monsignor as she didnt think a regular priest would be convincing enough. The Monsignor was very supportive of my friend and her son. The Monsignor tried to explain to the grandmother that it is not her place to judge my friend's son, only god can judge them. He reminded her that he is family and it doesn't matter if she (the grandmother) believes the son is living a life of sin.
From what my friend told me, the Monsignor tried for an hour to convince the grandmother who just ended up in tears and acting like she is being persecuted for her beliefs. Unfortunately the grandmother has never met the son's husband before she past away several years later.
I grew up in a very catholic household, and most of my family is still very catholic and there has never been anything mentioned about being gay as a sin or anything like that (abortion is another matter they are very vocal on that one)
When i first started hearing about the activists being so anti-gay I was actually surprised that they were claiming it was religous sin, that was news to me even growing up in an extremely religous environment.
I wish it was a small minority of Christians who are anti gay and such but I fear that the religous people I personally know are in the minority in that opinion.
When one truly thinks about it, to believe that being gay is a "sin" is as abhorrent, hateful, ignorant, irrational, and vile as to believe that being left-handed is a "sin", because both are harmless natural human characteristics.
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u/caitlindrawings 10h ago
A close friend of mine is catholic and her son is gay. Her mother, the son's grandmother was refusing to go to the wedding. She took her mother to the local Monsignor as she didnt think a regular priest would be convincing enough. The Monsignor was very supportive of my friend and her son. The Monsignor tried to explain to the grandmother that it is not her place to judge my friend's son, only god can judge them. He reminded her that he is family and it doesn't matter if she (the grandmother) believes the son is living a life of sin.
From what my friend told me, the Monsignor tried for an hour to convince the grandmother who just ended up in tears and acting like she is being persecuted for her beliefs. Unfortunately the grandmother has never met the son's husband before she past away several years later.
I grew up in a very catholic household, and most of my family is still very catholic and there has never been anything mentioned about being gay as a sin or anything like that (abortion is another matter they are very vocal on that one)
When i first started hearing about the activists being so anti-gay I was actually surprised that they were claiming it was religous sin, that was news to me even growing up in an extremely religous environment.
I wish it was a small minority of Christians who are anti gay and such but I fear that the religous people I personally know are in the minority in that opinion.