I love this... this Diocese of Colorado Springs has a 12 step program for us.
The Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs is borrowing a page from Alcoholics Anonymous by launching a 12-step program that offers pastoral care and support for homosexuals.So basically, they want to reach out to the questioning or the troubled gays to brainwash them. Very God-like guys.
“It’s not about therapy and not about activism,” said the Rev. Larry Brennan, diocese director of priest formation. “It’s about support.”
The Catholic Church views homosexual relations as a sin, but not homosexual thoughts. It expects those with same-sex attraction to be celibate.
“The exercise of sexuality is reserved for marriage, and that can only happen between a man and a woman,” Brennan said.
Jim Fitzgerald, executive director of Call to Action, a national progressive Catholic group headquartered in Chicago, is skeptical of Twelve Steps of Courage because he contends homosexuality isn’t sinful.
“It restricts people’s freedom to be the kind of person they were created to be,” Fitzgerald said of Courage.
But Brennan says the program is not for people comfortable with their gay lifestyle. “The people we want to reach are those who experience this as a burden,” he said.
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This seems a whole lot better than the organizations who are trying to "change" someone from gay to straight. If there are gays out there who want to keep their zippers up but are having a hard time doing so, then it's good they will have a support group.
How many people are in this position in the first place? There cannot be many.
Unless they're giving twelve dance steps, they can go eff themselves.
Funnily enough, I have a one-step program to help gays in the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs.
Step 1 - Leave.
Oh, gee. It sounds like a step up from the lobotomies the Mormons gave gay people thirty years ago.
These guys can go to hell.
I wonder if that's a good place to meet some guys? Because... can't no damn program change 'em.
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