Sexual Orientation

The Catholic Church believes that relationships between same sex partners is morally wrong. The Bible states that same sex relationships are looked down upon. Personally, I think that same sex relationships are weird, but i do not have a big problem with them. A same sex connection is more commonly found today, then any period within the last decade. The evolution of the acceptance of same sex bonds has matured through the last couple of years and I think that that acceptance is connected directly with the lessening number of people going to mass every year.
Over the summer, when I was traveling the country, visiting various colleges, my mother and I stopped into a small Catholic Church in a small town in the state of West Virginia and during the mass I remember the priest saying in his homily that more and more people every year are not going to mass as often as they used to or are just not going to mass at all. I think that the falling number of participants in the Catholic Church is one of the main reasons why more people accept "gay" relationships or why more people are "coming out of the closet." The Catholic Church in the earlier days, I feel used to be much more strick about what went on inside and outside of the church, which caused a "gay" person to keep it to himself or herself because the society would not have accepted that individual. Now, not all homosexuals are from the Roman Catholic religion, but the lack of Catholic reilgion caused more Catholics to "come out", which would then cause more homosexuals of other religions to "come out."
In my personal beliefs, I think that one could call me homophobic. I do not have a problem with someone being "gay", but when that person displays actions, such as kissing, in public I do have a problem with that. I do not know why I have a problem with homosexuals showing affection, I mean men and women show affection between eachother and I am okay with those emotions, but I am just not yet comfortable with viewing intamacy between homosexuals.