Catholic inverted homophobia

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Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on March 1, 2013 at 2:26am

"... those who seek to cover their own guilty tracks by the uncharitable nature of their words...."

Can it be protection by projection?

I used to precinct-walk (prior to elections) in a neighborhood where I heard from people who'd just worked their way out of the day labor part of the city. Their condemnations of that part of the city and the people who lived there exceeded, in bitterness, anything I'd ever heard. I wondered why, until I realized that their condemnations probably served to keep them from falling from their new status to their former status.

A young gay in Catholic schools hears priests endlessly attack his orientation and perhaps hopes he will escape his homosexuality if he's in a place where he hears more such attacks on it.

And guess what? Instead of escaping, he's got company.

An SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) chapter where I once lived was well known as a place where repressed gay men could meet other repressed gay men.

My dad, a Catholic, owned a small meat-and-grocery store and while I was away at college a younger brother delivered to the parish rectory. He told us he often saw liquor delivery trucks at the rectory.

When one means of escape fails, were the priests using another?

Their Church teaches that unhappiness in this life doesn't matter, as this life is simply preparation for another life.

They would have been motivated, not to change, but to die.

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on March 1, 2013 at 10:53am

I always thought that myself - and now they have uncovered it.

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