Mark 2:23-28
Let's see if I can draw this analogy properly. The disciples are plucking wheat and eating it which is considered wrong by what the pharisees say is God's 'law'.
If you are gay and Catholic, there is no sin in that according to what the Catechism says. In fact it actually would say that all respect and love should be afforded these people that are "objectively disordered". Well, first off, good luck being treated with love and respect but that is a side note here.
The church would have you believe that you are called to celibacy if you are gay. It is what they say is God's law. If you were to be observed in a loving (homosexual) relationship, that would be considered a sin. Like the apostles being judged for plucking wheat though, the church misses the mark. First, I have to say just how wrong they are as well as wrong hearted and even hard hearted. But in the context of God's intentions it would seem that the higher law is to love. I am not talking disrespectful love, but respectful, considerate and normal expressions of love. Is that not what God created us for? Yes, God created male and female but that passage is such a simplistic explanation for a people in a time that they could only comprehend God in such limited terms. Are we not aware of the extent of God's creation and the extend of homosexuality that is exhibited in all his animal kingdom? Is not the more fundamental message of the scripture that 'man should not be alone'? Are we not drawn to companionship? Are we not sexual beings and aren't we supposed to express that sexuality as part of our God given nature? To love one another is the image and emulation of God.
If the analogy worked, you will know that God made some homo and sexual being and that it really is in His interest and respect for His love that you express that love for others. I will be last to say random acts of faceless sex but certainly we should express our love for each other as God created us. Certainly it is man (the Church) dictating what they say is God's law, not unlike the Pharisees, who said plucking wheat would be wrong.
The number one law is to love. Love is the most sacred. When the church starts to act as vehemently against pre-marital heterosexual sex as they do about the gay community I may be tempted to give them some listening time. Until that time, their moral authority is nil, lost in haze of child abuse, coverups, obfuscations and forced celibacy.
23 One sabbath he was going through the cornfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ 25And he said to them, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? 26He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.’ 27Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; 28so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.’
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