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It said "people with homosexual tendencies must be welcomed with respect and delicacy," but repeated church teaching that marriage is only between man and woman. The paragraph failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass.--Vatican City (AP)
 http://news.yahoo.com/bishops-revise-document-gays-expect-approval-125810087.html

How can something so basic, without any political agenda, be voted against? I refuse to spend another day being upset about the way some conservative Catholics (and other people) see gays and lesbians.

If they don't get that gay people are people too, that's their problem, not mine. I am tired of spending sleepless nights convinced I am going to Hell,  I am tired of being someone I'm not just to be accepted by others. I am tired of homophobes referring to the gay "lifestyle" or thinking it's all about sex. I am just tired.

Even in this day and age, homophobia can be so bad some people still have to hide who they really are...to feel accepted or loved, sometimes to even feel safe.

So if the haters want to hate, let them. I will not hate back. 

If I could change anything, though, I would only wish they'd at least recognize that nobody would choose something that can bring so much pain into her life. I also wish, though this would probably be too much to ask, that they'd understand we fall in love as much as anyone else does. And, this is definitely asking too much, I just wish they'd read up on the topic more before flinging around words that truly can hurt, even devastate.

Sources like this help:

https://www.uml.edu/docs/LGBT_tcm18-60280.pdf