No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.