The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect – Roman Catholic -->Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna

In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different. This feeling “different” is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and are lasting throughout a child’s lifetime. The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but affects their families, siblings, friends and anyone who they might consider special in their life. It is a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which places at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. It stifles an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offer better ways of maintaining peace among people and improve the quality of living for everyone in the world.

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http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/cardinal-christoph-schonborn-op-quality.html

Same-Sex Marriages Should Be Allowed, Schwarzenegger Says

By Edvard Pettersson – August 7, 2010

BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-07/same-sex-marriages-should-be-allowed-schwarzenegger-says.html

On Prop 8, it's the evidence, stupid

By Lisa Bloom – CNN.com

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related links:

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-prop-8-its-evidence-stupid-by-lisa_18.html

Gramick: Equality is a Catholic value

by David Taffet – Dallas Voice

http://www.dallasvoice.com/gramick-equality-catholic-1039310.html

Gay Marriage -> Restores “Hope of Love”

To Children In Early Childhood

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-restores-hope-of-love-to.html

Gay marriage - Sexual orientation

is less about sex and more about love,

being one with another human being - Attachment Theory

LOVE & RELIGION

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-sexual-orientation-is-less_3483.html

Gay Marriage - Galileo Condemned As A Heretic

Misinterpretations of The Bible

Homosexuality? Natural Law? Benedict XVI?

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-galileo-condemned-as.html

The Pope Is Not Gay

Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Dish – The Atlantic

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/pope-is-not-gay-by-andrew-sullivan_17.html

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”

Erik Erikson

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6

Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.

Kids Are Being Hurt !!!

Discharged under 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' - By Pelin Sidki, CNN

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

(CNN) -- Darren Manzella saw two tours of duty in Iraq, first as a combat medic and later as a liaison officer. He earned three promotions in his six years as a U.S. Army sergeant.

Despite his professional success, Manzella says he began to question his personal life.

"After returning from my first deployment in Iraq, after seeing death and violence, losing friends and comrades, it really made me look over my life," he said. "I looked at some issues I had always had trouble with. I had debated, 'Am I gay?' " Photo

As he struggled with his sexual identity, Manzella began a relationship with a man. Soon after, while in Texas between tours, Manzella said he began receiving anonymous, harassing e-mails and telephone calls.

"They told me, 'You are stupid, the Army is going to kick you out, but before they do, they are going to take your rank away and all your money away.' "

Manzella describes this time as one of fear and deep insecurity.

"I didn't know if the military police would be coming through the door to take me away because someone had reported me," he said. "This was some of the paranoia I was living with every day."

Manzella says that the e-mails and calls went on for months and that after many sleepless nights, he decided to ask his supervisor for help.

"He listened and was somewhat sympathetic," Manzella said. "He told me not to worry, to try and get some rest, to go home early and see him in the morning."

By the next morning, Manzella's supervisor had reported him as having broken the law under "don't ask, don't tell," the 1993 policy that prohibits anyone who "demonstrate(s) a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts" from serving in the U.S. military.

Manzella said he was read his rights and told that he would be investigated, but that he could continue working. As the investigation proceeded, word spread that Manzella was gay.

"Ironically, it pulled the unit together. A lot of them started to invite me out,"

Manzella said.

"My co-worker was getting married; she told me that my boyfriend an I were invited to the wedding. It made me feel like I was more a part of the family."

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