BC and the LGBT Community

moooop
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 03:40:17 +0000

If you look at the LGBT struggles in the last 5 or 6 decades, you will see how complicated the situation is. The two institutions that have had to walk the finest line have probably been the US military and the Catholic Church. Originally, both groups officially condemned alternative sexuality, as did society as a whole.

But as time went by, attitudes changed. Originally, oppressed sexual groups just wanted to be spared active persecution…Phrases like " what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is their business" were common. Over the decades, that plea for tolerance has morphed into demands for active support and even endorsement. And that is the difficult situation the military & Catholic church find themselves in. Neither institution seems to be interested in actively discriminating against most alternative lifestyles. That is good enough for some people; others want an unqualified endorsement. I would imagine BC’s administration isn’t the slightest bit interested in what happens behind closed doors, but given the official church position, they are probably unable to put their official deal if approval on some lifestyles, even if their personal sympathies lie in that direction.