Posted:
Sun May 05, 2019 10:10 amby Separatist Peoples
The ideological ban rule applies to facial bans of discrete ideologies, not undermining portions of ideologies. Otherwise, every resolution would be an ideological ban of some degree or another.
I'm calling it legal on this count.
Posted:
Thu May 09, 2019 5:18 amby Liberimery
Just a bit of clarification on Catholic Church doctrine that is mistaken here. The Catholic Church does not consider people with homosexual attractions as sinful for having such an attraction. It is the act of homosexual sex alone that is sinful. It is entirely possible for an openly gay man to be ordained a priest as priests take a vow of celibacy and thus would not have sexual relations of any kind. This was first espoused by Pope John Paul II, and more famously with Pope Francis who summarized the concept more suscinctly. The scandals of homosexual priests in the church stem from the coverup of statutory rape of boys by the church's higherarchy, which is treated with the same outrage as would be afforded to Straight priests who engage in statutory rape of girls (both events are well known to have been covered up. Netflix Documentary "The Keepers" covers both genders but focus more on a scandal in a Baltimore based all girls Catholic School.).
Just wanted to clarify as there is no rule I am aware of that prevents gay men from serving as Clergy in the church and in fact, there's some thoughts that gay priests might be more frequent than not as the vow of celibacy makes sex of any kind by a priest sinful. Willing to cite sources if required but that is time consuming at the time of posting.