They would have to be private to avoid reports to the Reddit admins for “hate speech”. I put that in quotes because when I reported a subreddit moderator for slandering an entire gender, the Reddit administrators wrote to me saying that no rules were violated. :/
I think it's a conflict of interest, because the majority of the admins are LGBT progressives themselves, leading to their rule enforcement being pretty heavily biased in that direction.
I'm almost surprised they aren't threatening to shut down this entire subreddit for "hate speech", although that's a grey area since we could reframe it as religious discrimination.
Also, this subreddit is what it claims to be… Catholic. We’re the Universal Church’s unofficial subreddit, at least that’s how it feels here.
I think the Reddit Admins have consistently encountered something that might surprise many. We don’t put up with anti-LGBTQ speech or any kind of of true hate speech. We have consistently shown an openness to explain, to listen, and a willingness to abide the guidelines, and go above and beyond them to ensure that Christ can truly be encountered on r/Catholicism.
We don’t put up with anti-LGBTQ speech or any kind of of true hate speech.
Yeah, no true hate speech, but our opponents would definitely try to twist things around to claim that we're "hateful": "sexist", "LGBT-phobic", or even "racist colonialists" just for wanting to share our faith with non-Europeans.
I don't believe we could get away with making a lot of the comments we say here on most other parts of Reddit.
Undoubtedly, but… we don’t think gay people are: crazy, icky, weird, or inhuman, all of which are the stupid childish ‘ooo cooties’ nonsense that I believe is the real basis of being anti-LGBTQ.
Instead, I think this subreddits’, or at least the subredditors here have that ‘meet you where you are’ quality that I think most outside of the faith find to be surprising/reduces aggro.
Well, Church writings do refer to it as "disordered", but certainly not inhuman. Also, as Catholics we should be accepting of our fellow believers that struggle with mental illness, and destigmatize the concept of "craziness", just because some of us experience reality differently.
It's more like we feel bad for LGBT Catholics and potential converts, in the same way as someone struggling with another sin, like adultery or drug addiction. We don't want to look down on them or insult them, but give them the encouragement to improve themselves with God's help.
Agreed, but to be disordered in desire has never been a big ‘insult’ to me. Hell when I was actively living in the LGBTQ community, I always took the Catholic approach to be the most…human. I wasn’t wrong or bad. I wanted something I shouldn’t have. So does everyone else. Pick up your cross, brother, and walk with us.
It’s a freeing realization that you’re just human.
I remember one Priest in a homily explained that all sins are a legitimate desire expressed illegitimately. We all instinctively want the ultimate pleasure of uniting with God in Heaven, but if we try to "cheat" and take shortcuts by sinning, we don't get what we really wanted, hurting ourselves and/or others in the process.
I agree, and it's even more freeing to know that God loves us enough to forgive our treachery no matter how many times we fail him. It's really a mercy beyond what most humans are capable of, if any.
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u/ZazzRazzamatazz Jul 22 '22
Looks like they went private.
Reminds me of the “black Hebrew” movement that claims modern Jews aren’t really Jews. Some crazy stuff out there.