My (accidental) Lunch with the Chaplain of the Courage Apostolate

So, as it turns out the chaplain of the Courage apostolate in Toronto goes to my parish. I’ve met him several times, without knowing who he was.

The strange part is that I had just been praying to meet the head of the Courage apostolate after watching a curious testimony on YouTube this week. I have so many questions about it. It just doesn’t make much sense (and it’s downright mean) to label lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex or transgender people as especially unchaste in the first place. I don’t want to get too much into that right now though, I need my computer to stay in one piece.

He invited me to the group. I said sure, as long as I can blog about it. Several other rather telling questions and statements followed.

“How many hits do you get?”

“Now how did you get mixed up with these people in the first place?”

“You were raised by a gay parent?”

“Was she openly gay with you growing up?”

“That was a traumatic experience?”

I’ll admit it was a little irritating to have someone dig into my life history during the first 5 minutes of genuine interaction. I don’t appreciate someone trying to fix me – when I’m perfectly fine.

You should have seen how quiet post-mass coffee was when I told him I was supportive of queer rights in the Church.

“That’ll never happen in your lifetime!”

That, my friends, is what you get from the Chaplain of the Courage Apostolate.

This is going to be interesting.

In other news, I met three other people who want to help me in my work. Ha! God is good!