New Catholic Survey Asks About People With ‘Homosexual Tendencies’ “ In preparation for the second iteration of the Catholic Church’s much-discussed Synod on the Family, Vatican officials are once again polling the world’s Catholics about their...

New Catholic Survey Asks About People With ‘Homosexual Tendencies’

In preparation for the second iteration of the Catholic Church’s much-discussed Synod on the Family, Vatican officials are once again polling the world’s Catholics about their opinions on controversial “family issues” such as abortion, divorce, and homosexuality. The new survey, unveiled this week, resembles a 2013 poll launched by Pope Francis that was heralded as a welcome step towards valuing the often-progressive opinions of Catholic laity.

But some Catholic LGBT advocates say that this year’s survey, which seeks to advise an upcoming meeting of prominent Catholic clergy next October, has a problem: its questions about homosexuality are, well, kind of offensive.

In a draft version of the survey released on Tuesday, a section dedicated to LGBT issues included the following two-part question about “people with homosexual tendencies”:

“How can the Christian community direct its pastoral care to families that have people with homosexual tendencies among them? Avoiding any unjust discrimination, how can we take care of people in such situations in light of the Gospel?”

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    Well, you see, you throw out the Gospel and treat them like the human beings they are. Pretty easy.
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    The question is about care to families, not about sex, mr. Pope and co., so what is the homosexual reference doing in...
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    fourscoreandsevenyears and then there is this…
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