Would writer call Jesus a Catholic hater?

Just because someone disagrees with a policy of the Catholic church doesn’t make them or any of the supporters of Carla Hale, the Bishop Watterson High School teacher who was fired for being in a lesbian relationship, Catholic haters.

Many of the school’s students and alumni also are protesting her firing. Letter writer Jerry Mogan said the church was just following what Jesus Christ charged it to teach (Wednesday letter). Jesus never mentioned homosexuality.

In 2003, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote: “What are called ‘homosexual unions,’ because they do not express full human complementarity and because they are inherently nonprocreative, cannot be given the status of marriage.”

What about survivors of ovarian or testicular cancer? Can they not form a union or marry because they can’t procreate? What about those in their 60s who fall in love? The Church’s Catechism even states that sexual attraction toward a person of the same sex is not freely chosen.

Somehow, I can’t imagine a compassionate Jesus meeting someone who loves a person of the same sex and saying, “Gee, sorry about your luck.”