![]() ![]() The church thought dances were an occasion for sin. Yet the church frowned on that sort of fun. The one jolly person in his early life was his stepmother, Katie. He feared that God was remote, like his father. ![]() ![]() Label cottaging ‘sinful’ and the church can stop facing up to its own sin and the gay person can avoid looking at areas of life which ARE sins. Too many gays are ashamed of their desires, ashamed of their behaviour. Looking back, instead of condemning this as sinful, he saw this as something good – a desire for intimacy, ultimately a desire for God but also a desire for other people because most of us get God’s love through the love of other people.Ĭottaging is part of the thirst for God, a basically healthy yearning because of the oppression from straight society there is often nowhere else to go to find love, so people settle for sex and such brief encounters can have something of the divine about them. He cottaged in Paris after he was ordained. He thinks that he had an intense longing for intimacy with God and that this explains his longing for male intimacy denied him by his father, sought after in gay encounters. He felt as if God and the whole universe were hostile. When John was still in his playpen, his mother died giving birth to the next child. What is our view of God? Is he our lover? Or is he someone to be afraid of? John McNeill was one of the first Roman Catholics to write a systematic book on gay issues. ![]()
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