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Religion, particularly Christianity, has had a substantial role in shaping society’s attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community. Throughout history, Christianity’s impact on LGBTQIA+ rights have been complex, encompassing diverse views amongst its followers. Understanding this can help foster empathy and acceptance. LGBTQIA+, an acronym standing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex, and Asexual, along with the “+” representing other sexual orientations and gender identities, is an umbrella term that embraces numerous valid identities. By exploring the intersection of Christianity and LGBTQIA+, we can spot mistakes made in the past, grow from them, and move towards shared respect and understanding.

Pederasty, Roman Catholic Church and Christians

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Clergy are a gift from God to the Church, people who live simple lives. Such people are also a gift to the world for what they do. There are great number of such people in the Roman Catholic Church leading ascetic lives and bringing the Good News to all and helping the poor and the needy. Among these people, however, are some Clergy known for their venality who spend most of their time in secular delight. These second category of Clergy are known to have engaged and continue to engage in immoral acts in secrecy, anthesis to biblical teachings. This has been known to the Roman Catholic Church for more than 900 years.

In the year 1049 a Roman Catholic Monk, Saint Peter Damian sent a paper titled “Liber Gomorrhianus the Book of Gomorrah” to Pope Leo IX. In Saint Peter Damian’s book of Gomorrah, he mentioned that “predictable results of his Superior’s leniency are that vice spread, the culprit grows more darling in his illicit acts knowing he will not suffer any loss in his clerical status, he loses all fear of God, and his last state is worse than the first”.

Damian’s opening words almost seem addressed to the contemporary Church, as he warned the Pope that the “cancer of sodomitic impurity” is threatening the integrity of the clergy itself, and urges him to act with all speed, adding that “unless the force of the Apostolic See opposes it as quickly as possible, there is no doubt that when it finally wishes for the unbridled evil to be restrained, it may not be able to halt the fury of its advance.” St. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful lessons for today – Catholic World Report.

What we are seeing and hearing today is as result of the failure of the Papacy. From the 11^th century to present day, the Roman Catholic Church has refused to bring some form of discipline to bear on those clergy who indulge in such immoral act. Where does the Roman Catholic Church think LGBTQ+ originated from that they try to persecute them? All the young innocent boys they traumatized, what happened to them as adults, what kind of lives did they expect them to live?

Besides the Catholic Church, the Orthodox, Evangelicals, Charismatic and Black Churches are all complicit. If the bible does not accept such behavior, then there is the need for penance and true confession rather than persecution of LGBTQIA+.