Former nun wants same sex legalized

Posted : February 18 2010

A former Catholic nun in Kerala says legalizing homosexuality would help lesbians joining convents in the hope of fulfilling their sexual inclinations without being frowned upon by society. “If lesbians could seek partners legally, they would not have to take refuge in a convent. They would not have to languish in the sacred atmosphere of a convent,” former nun Jesme wrote in an article. The nun left her convent life and recently published her best selling autobiography in Malayalam. It gives explicit references of lesbian relations within her convent among several other aberrations in Church institutions. In her autobiography, Amen, Jesme tells her own experience with a lesbian nun, who forcibly slept with her inside her convent room. The Christian institutions built on celibacy are full of homosexual and heterosexual tendencies, the book says. “We should give a thought to the perspective of homosexuals and lesbians who are born that way. It’s not their fault if they are born that way. The Church doesn’t explain what god’s plan about them is,” Delhi’s DNA paper quoted the nun. She said a psychologist-priest told her that 5 percent of people are born with homosexual orientation and “most of the Catholics among them are attracted to monasteries,” she said. Jesme’s autobiography was a major embarrassment to the Church when it hit the stands in February 2009. She started working on the book after she took a six-month sabbatical from her vocation as the principal of St Mary’s College, Thrissur. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and other Christian bodies in India have opposed Delhi High Court’s decision to do away with section 377 of the IPC, which penalises homosexuality. The bishops think homosexuality would weaken family values.

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Former nun wants same sex legalized

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