“What the Synod of Bishops’ Document Means for Gay People”: Me at OnFaith

doin’ my thing:

“Pope Will Marry a Gay Couple Tomorrow, Probably.” “Pope Just Basically Giving Up on Catholicism: ‘Fun While It Lasted,’ Pontiff Says.” “Synod Changes Absolutely Nothing, Unless It Helps Me Politically.”

According to the headlines, either St. Peter’s has been demolished by a great gay earthquake, or the Synod of Bishops on the family is a tiny earthworm whose tiny earthworm-castings will be forgotten before All Souls’ Day. Of the making of tweets there is no end.

In reality, the Synod’s hotly-contested “relatio,” a working document intended to summarize the discussions which have taken place behind closed doors, offers a lot of hope to gay and same-sex attracted people who wonder if they have a future in the Catholic Church. It isn’t perfect; it includes a little too much and leaves out the most important thing. But it rejects much of the harmful “conventional wisdom” of the recent Christian past. It is mostly promising.

more (some of the links are currently in the wrong places so I’ll try to get that fixed asap)