Abstrakt
What impedes changes in the official politics of the Catholic Church welcoming for gay (LGBTIQ+) people? In this paper, following up on The devil the homosexual 1, I continue tracing devilized aspects in the representation of homoeroticism and homosexuality in the Catholicized context. This time, I introduce structural homophobia in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
I point out the intimate interrelatedness of the concepts of sexuality, genital complementarity, marriage, and procreation in Catholic theological biopolitical documents, used as arguments against gay partnership and marriage. I exemplify "coming-outs" of the precarious situation with selected progressive Christianity approaches as possibilities of new and less homophobically biased Biblical exegesis.
The paper makes apparent that (the Western concept of) homosexuality (LGBTIQ+) clashes with the Catholic strictly binary sexed/gendered narrative and image of the God's Creation in terms of the heterosexist dualistic world's order.