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In high school, I started to think of religion as something that didn’t put any actual obligations on someone. I didn’t put it in those words, because I didn’t think of myself as being gay and other people as being straight I thought I had a problem, a disease, some sinful condition that God could heal just like he healed the sick.Īs I came to accept that I could not change my sexuality, and slowly started to recognize that it was not a moral flaw, I drifted away from the Church. To the best of my knowledge, the first time that I prayed for something for myself was when I asked God to make me straight. Growing up, I can remember praying in pretty much two ways: the standard Catholic Our Fathers and Hail Marys, and prayers for the intentions of others, especially family and those in need. My religious life has been tied up with my sexuality ever since my awareness of the latter first came about. I would love to say that my rejection of a couple tenets of Catholic teaching is a result of purely intellectual efforts on my part. Many Catholics would claim that I am not one of them based on my inclusion of three words there at the end: “without serious reflection.” I cannot accept the Church’s teaching wholesale - because I’m gay. I believe that the Roman Catholic Church is a holy institution, and that the teaching and traditions of the Church are not to be rejected without serious reflection. When I’m there, I say the Nicene Creed and mean every word of it: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth and … ” I believe in humanity’s fall, and subsequent redemption through Christ I believe in the intercession of the saints and I believe in the Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I go to Mass often (weekly before the pandemic hit). I don’t have a problem with calling myself Catholic.