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14. Before I woke up....
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 07:05 AM
Apr 2015

....I was raised Catholic and the church I remember was pretty damned progressive in the late 60s and early 70s. I left, then gave it another try in the early 2000s, and I attended a Catholic church where one of the lecterns was a married lesbian woman, and the entire congregation celebrated the couple when they had a baby. There was a priest who was suspected of marrying gays in private ceremonies (and yeah, he was in a hell of a lot of trouble for that - he was run out of the parish).

That's wildly different than the gay-hating Catholics we see. They can't all be right. So which is it? Tolerance, as their jesus supposedly teaches them? Or condemning all who don't follow their strictest and made-up dogma?

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