"I'm still new in the apologetics area concerning the Catholic Church. Do they really believe these things? I really would like to know."
No need to apologise, Jesusfreak40. The RCC did after all write, edit and codify the Bible as we know it today.
Which was then rewritten and re-edited by King James, into the KJV you fundies drool over so much. PROTIP: King James liked having bum fun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_James_I_of_England
'The personal relationships of James I of England included relationships with his male courtiers'
'James adopted a severe stance towards sodomy using English law. His book on kingship, Basilikón Doron, (Greek for "Royal Gift") lists sodomy among those “horrible crimes which ye are bound in conscience never to forgive”. He also singled out sodomy in a letter to Lord Burleigh giving directives that Judges were to interpret the law broadly and were not to issue any pardons, saying that "no more colour may be left to judges to work upon their wits in that point."
However, nearly two centuries later, Jeremy Bentham, in an unpublished manuscript, denounced James as a hypocrite after his crackdown: "[James I], if he be the author of that first article of the works which bear his name, and which indeed were owned by him, reckons this practise among the few offences which no Sovereign ever ought to pardon. This must needs seem rather extraordinary to those who have a notion that a pardon in this case is what he himself, had he been a subject, might have stood in need of.'
Thus the basis of your own beliefs is of a homosexual nature. Ergo, your own 'God', 'Jesus', and therefore your Christian 'faith' is gay. No wonder hypocrisy is in the DNA of right-wing Fundamentalist Christians. Ted Faggard, for example. Not forgetting the paedophile priests in the RCC, of course.
Just to let you know. Enjoy your theological paradox Jesusfreak40 & everyone on Ruptured Retards. Like I say, no need to apologise...
...for your own ignorance of Christian doctrine. Which says so much about religious fundies, when we Atheists know more about their beliefs than those on Ruptured Retards do (as so many outside the US know more about the Constitution than a sizeable proportion of the US's population). Thus we have the ultimate weapon to use against you on RR - your own Scripture, with it's inconsistencies, inaccuracies, flaws and hypocrisies. After all, to quote the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu:
'Know your enemy and know yourself. And you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.'
'Faith' vs. Atheism. It's a battle you're losing, fundies.