Reply #16: If it makes you feel better, I hold the Prince with the Ruby Slippers

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equally culpable.

A Pope should be trying to initiate peace and attempt to care for all of the persecuted. Not exiling a minority from full inclusion in participation in the church and the greater community.

There's an interesting passage the "Christians" are forgetting (yet again). Turn the other cheek. It doesn't mean to let someone beat you senselessly, but to ask them what you have done to offend the other person, apologize, and make whatever amends necessary, right up to allowing physical violence. Right now, the Talibangelicals, the Catholics, and the Mormons should be lining up, apologizing, and putting all their effort in correcting the wrong they have been doing self-righteously for centuries.

I'm not asking to once again be shackled into the confines of a conservative religion again. I would like for the members of my community, and for all other excluded members for whatever reason, to be brought back into a situation where people choose to live and let live. If you want to believe that sexual minorities won't be brought with you into Heaven, that's your choice. However, there are plenty of Protestants who feel the exact same way about Catholics, Mormons, and even other Protestant groups. It doesn't give a Baptist majority (for example) the moral right to legislate against Catholic marriages any more than it doesn't give a Christian super-majority the moral right to legislate against sexual minorities.