{"id":754,"date":"2015-05-16T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T00:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=754"},"modified":"2015-05-16T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T00:14:35","slug":"colombian-bishop-floats-idea-of-gay-apostle-lesbian-mary-magdalene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Colombian bishop floats idea of gay apostle, lesbian Mary Magdalene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colombian bishop floats idea of gay apostle, lesbian Mary Magdalene<\/h1>\n
Bishop Juan Vicente C\u00f3rdoba says ‘no one chooses to be gay or straight’<\/div>\n
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By In\u00e9s San Mart\u00edn<\/p>\n

Vatican correspondent May 15, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ROME \u2014 A Colombian bishop, insisting that being homosexual is not a sin, said Thursday it\u2019s possible that one of the twelve apostles of Jesus was gay or that Mary Magdalene, another key New Testament figure, was a lesbian.<\/p>\n

Bishop Juan Vicente C\u00f3rdoba of Fontib\u00f3n, Colombia, also said the Catholic Church does not oppose same-sex couples making a life together, but does not consider such arrangements to be a marriage or a family.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one chooses to be gay or straight,\u201d C\u00f3rdoba said. \u201cOne simply feels, loves, experiments, is attracted, and no attraction is bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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C\u00f3rdoba was speaking at a conference about gay marriage and adoption hosted by the local University of Los Andes, at a time when Colombia is debating gay marriage and adoption rights.<\/p>\n

Although C\u00f3rdoba reiterated Church teaching when it comes to marriage \u2013 that it\u2019s a union between a man and a woman, permanent, and open to children \u2013 he said that homosexuality isn\u2019t a sin.<\/p>\n

\u201cSin is something else. It\u2019s not respecting the dignity of others. Not loving God and our neighbors as we love ourselves, not feeding the hungry, not giving water to the thirsty,\u201d C\u00f3rdoba said.<\/p>\n

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