Hi all
To be completely frank you're all morons. Individuals can have their views but the church itself is not in the habit of persecuting gays.
I think this debate has been crippled by ignorance and misunderstanding, and certain people making silly misleading arguments.
'Being gay' is not a crime in Canon Law. Merely being gay is not an issue.
It instead revolves around marriage, which revolves around the production of legitimate children (Believe it or not thats a bit tricky for same sex couples, I know, I was shocked too). For a whole list of reasons it is currently irply based on scripture more heavily weighted towards being between men and women. Sorry!
No. Canonist death squads do not hunt the gays. I have never seen a gay lynching on lotc. I have seen barely any rp even related to it beyond forum posts and some Lurinite weirdo, and the irp Church debate about it. But a mass hysteria has gripped certain people and decided that the Russians have gone too far in oppressing the lgbtq etc community.. oh whoops I meant humanity, sorry.
I believe the Canonist line is that gay stuff is treated the same as any stuff outside of marriage. Depends where you are but Church line I believe is just 'pray confess repent go about your business', though if one of the partakers is married then it becomes more of a problem because it violates wedding stuff, which is treated the same whether it a gay or straight incident of doing the silly with someone you're not married to. It's not that deep.
Its my view that romance rp is weird. It should ideally be done privately anyway, in Canonist societies you don't really get big displays of affection in public. If people want to do their gay romance rp, or any sort of romance rp, its done privately. If you want to sit on a bed and ftb, I should hope youre not in the middle of a city street. The Canonist Church doesnt stop you doing your gay rp. It doesn't try to murderise you. It's been thoroughly overblown. But if you do want to have legitimate heirs and not get in trouble for cheating on your spouse, this goes for everyone, don't dew it!
Please stop schizo posting. I think the possibility of banning people for their irl religious views is moronic and if it was the other way around and you were being banned for your views of lgbtq stuff you'd be outraged. Lets just not keep forcing it into ooc scandal so people stop arguing about it oocly and just do RP.
Mods I advise deleting this post and squashing any ooc moronism that comes up in the future, for everyone's sake. I find people on both sides of the argument very irritating and repulsive.
Cheers
Okay yeah I just read through the comments again and man. I don't know what all the fuss is about the only 'no gays r bad book says so' is on the forums theres literally nothing on the actual server. idk what you people think the canonist church's stance is but you haven't even tried beyond 'grr damn catholic larpers and their BIBLE', in one of the posts abt this a bit ago some1 literally quoted the bible to argue that 'hurr durr dont u guys preach abt loving thy neighbour?' or something like that. Bloody hell if you're going to have an IRP discourse abt it, actually put in a tiny bit of effort into researching it if you're gonna whine abt it.