Comments for A Look at the T in LGBT at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 15:07:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6875 Jack, I applaud your honest reading of my piece! Actually, I plainly say the young man needs psychiatric help and not someone lopping off his privates. Getting real help is not yucky. - Austin Ruse Sat, 21 May 2011 03:14:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6874 New poll out 55% now believe gay marriage acceptable, up from 44% previously. So, the "anything goes" crowd is now fully in command. Another reason why I'm a non-believer. Because if people are "born this way," then Who is to blame? The Creator or the created? As for the yuck factor, it's always been there for me and most others. But now, as the mainstream, leftist media continue to push LGBT agenda and as Americans become more "tolerant" about "alternative lifestyles," I react with only one thought. If there is a God, let Him put an end to all imperfection and begin anew. Depravity is now the new norm. As Jane Eyre ends, "Come Lord Jesus." - Grump Sat, 21 May 2011 03:00:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6872 Mr. Ruse: I want to make sure I am understanding you correctly - you believe that a 13 year-old boy wants to undergo a sex change because he has been sexually abused and is probably ostracized by his same-sex peers. And your response to this is...to be repulsed by him? To employ the "yuck factor"? Do you think this is the Catholic position or are you claiming this as your own? - Jack Fri, 20 May 2011 19:28:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6870 I remember those great words spoken by Katherine Hepburn in "The African Queen". I may not have Humphrey Bogart's character's name correct but the quotation goes something like this: "Human nature, Mr. Alnaught, is what we are put on earth to overcome." - Louise Fri, 20 May 2011 14:59:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6868 Enness, I appreciate your comments, they are sincere and intelligent, but intelligence founded on error is only greater error. The bottom line is not compassion, it is Truth, and only compassion that comes out of Truth is properly ordered to our truest purpose, that is salvation. To choose oneself over Truth for comfort in this life falls within our free will, but we must not call things what we call them with the foundational idea that compassion is the bottom line, we must call things what they are in Truth. I am pleased to see that you understand the perversion and corrupted ideology behind the lgbtqulmnop agenda, that is a good beginning. Please pray for me, Achilles. - Achilles Fri, 20 May 2011 13:04:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6866 The bathroom bill passed the CT House yesterday. No surprise in the state where gay legislators have tried to force lay boards to rule the Bishops. - jgbeam Fri, 20 May 2011 11:28:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6864 I have heard enough plausible evidence to be convinced that some cases have a physiological origin. The problem is, my instinct tells me that these are probably a lot fewer than there are people claiming, and society has little interest in really sorting out which is which; people simply take their word for it and then callously decide it's not their problem or they have no right to tell them they need to seek help. If I even suggest that some of them might be mentally ill, it's dismissed out of hand. Not like it wouldn't fit in with many other strange disorders that afflict people, such as body integrity disorder (cutting off healthy limbs out of the belief that one will be happier as an amputee) or Munchausen syndrome (need to be seen as ill or injured, sometimes to the point of causing one's own symptoms). The bottom line has to be compassion... - enness Fri, 20 May 2011 10:46:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6863 This lgbtqi is one of the most interesting moral (immoral) developments in the history of human kind. This is just fruit of the tree of ignorance we have been feeding off of since the enlightenment. We have surely lost sight of what it means to be human when we mistake obvious psychological problems for natural mistakes and use technological solutions to solve soul problems. There will be plenty more where this came from. Confucius said “emotions are like fire and water, they make great servants but terrible masters.” Our confused emotions have started a wild fire in our imaginations and I think the sky is the limit on these gender classifications if we don’t put this fire out with some Holy Water. - Achilles Fri, 20 May 2011 10:08:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6862 Perhaps an unusual viewpoint for TCT: I'm a "gay" man who parted ways with the Church over the issue of homosexuality, but who understands the Catholic position on it as a probably unavoidable outcome of its deeper commitment to the sacrament of marriage. I don't practice the faith but I am not mad at it. I also have found myself increasingly distanced from the "LGBT" construct which is now considered to be canonical for folks like me. It is a sexual version of Yugoslavia, concocted from the toxic assumptions of leftist and victimist identity politics, plus male-hating feminism. Insofar as my erotic life creates a "community", it might be with folks who share the issue of erotic object: attraction to one's own sex. What the addition of the T does is to skew the issue into one of gender deviance, basing the whole LBGT identity not on a shared set of desires but on opposition to traditional notions of gender. On those grounds, there is no reason to reject male cross-dressers (who are overwhelmingly straight) into the "community." Count me out. I am a man who loves other men. I am not a female soul trapped in a male body. I am a male soul quite happily at home in his male body. What do I have in common with a male who hates his body, wants to have his privates cut off and be a female? And then, as a heterosexual, connect with men? Unfortunately, adding the T only serves to reinforce among many --not all-- gay men the lamentable phenomenon of the unintegrated feminine and the fetishized masculine. - EssemSF Fri, 20 May 2011 07:56:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/a-look-at-the-t-in-lgbt.html#comment-6857 The University of Vermont now recognizes seven "gender categories" - don't ask! - Father Benedict Fri, 20 May 2011 05:00:56 +0100