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Article: Should homosexuals remain in the Catholic Church?(faith & spirituality)
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- Catholic New Times
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- January 16, 2005
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Catholic homosexual people committed to the Gospel ask themselves whether they should leave the Catholic Church where they are spurned, to become members of the United Church of Canada where they are respected. The Catholic Church teaches that homosexuals lack full human integrity and that homosexual love is always sinful, while the United Church looks upon homosexuality as a natural variant and accepts gays and lesbians as equal members of the congregation, including the right to seek ordination.
What should a Catholic theologian say to Catholic gays and lesbians who ask whether they should switch their ecclesiastical allegiance? One answer would be to insist ...