Protests at 'Love Won Out' Conference

Organizers [of the "Love Won Out"] say the turnout of 1,700 was the largest of their 37 U.S. conferences. Organizers said people came from 28 states.

...no matter how kind the organizers said family members should be, their point was not lost. They all stressed that a gay lifestyle is a sin. The speeches breezed right over normally divisive topics without challenge because the opposition was largely outside in the cold. As conventioneers arrived in the morning, more than 350 protesters waited with handmade signs. . .

A few young women chanted at cars, "Two-Four-Six-Eight, how do you know your wife is straight?"

"It’s ridiculous the church thinks we need therapy," said Warren Lacey, 65, of St. Louis. He carried a sign, "God Made Me Gay." Lacey said he’s known since about age 5 that he was attracted to males. "It’s part of your nature. It’s not a decision to be made. It’s part of you."
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Elena Pahl, 21, of St. Louis, said she was standing with the protesters Saturday because she doesn’t like the message the convention was sending. "They call (being gay) a disease," Pahl said. "I’m a pretty active Christian and I don’t appreciate that view."

No matter how one tries to dice and slice it, the fact remains that an attraction to homosexuality is objectively disordered and that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. (CCC 2357)

Homosexual persons are called to live a life of chastity, just as every other person.

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