tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post4600708553871618699..comments2023-10-01T03:05:01.291-07:00Comments on GAY MYSTIC: Response to AnyonomousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post-91262459176829126932010-01-05T16:18:51.751-08:002010-01-05T16:18:51.751-08:00Jayden, we can also ask this question on its head,...Jayden, we can also ask this question on its head, and ask just which doctors of the church or saint DID teach that loving same sex relationships were seriously wrong?<br /><br />Augustine, certainly, but he was so wracked with guilt over his own past that he deplored most sex, even inside marriage. For many centuries, his was a minority view, and many church leaders did not just tolerate gay sex, they practiced it.<br /><br />The modern idea that homosexuality is clearly condemned in scripture, and contravenes "the constant teaching" of the church is false. The strong opposition dates only form the twelfth century, with the Third Lateran Council. <br /><br />(I have placed a fuller statement of this in reply to the original comment)Terence Weldonhttp://queeringthechurch.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com