I'm Marco, I'm your leader, I'm gay and I ask for the same rights

Dialogue by Mattia Z. with Marco Credo

"I'm Marco, I'm your leader, I'm gay and I ask for equal rights", so Marco Crudo, a profession of profession, began a awareness campaign against sexual orientation discrimination on his Facebook page in favor of LGBTI workers.
I had the opportunity to talk to him and interviewee. I had questions that had arisen to me after reading an interesting one of him interview (Pride, 14 december 2016).

Hi Marco, thanks for your availability. regarding What you said, curiosity have arisen to ask you. what you say is Beautiful "[...] the image of What you really are: a unique and wonderful creature ... [...]". are You also of the idea that This unique and wonderful creature is a work Of someone who wanted us since eternity?

I have a decidedly more evolutionist approach than the debate on the origins. However, I have deep respect for everyone's beliefs and I sometimes reflect myself, I tell myself that if we are so wonderfully complicated and full of things to solve in this life, it is not possible that everything fades with the end of our body. But I believe it is in human nature to wonder where it has come from and where we will go before and after earthly life. The answers we give ourselves I think they are often reassuring compared to our fear of the end. Of course we are wonderfully unique creatures, whoever has been the architect of our existence.

Are you a believer? Do you think someone who wanted us? Do you think you can thank that someone who made us unique and wonderful as well as we are?

I am atheist, but I have always defined myself quite borderline. I grew up in a Catholic family and until my 18 years I attended the oratory, I went to catechism and I was a cleric. Growing up I then had a kind of rejection crisis towards the Church as an institution, and this has removed me from faith.
Now i feel i have a spirituality that maybe not particularly cultivated and i believe that something, somewhere and somehow there will be or was there, something that has to do with our life on earth. i admit i Try some envy for those who have faith. a healthy faith, However, and not blind. a conscious faith That allows you to live in reality. i feel I have to thank life in general, which is the most precious gift that has been made to us and to whom we must honor.

What do you think of those LGBTI boys and people who are believing and homosexuals at the same time? How can you, in light of what has been said, that each of us is a wonderful creature, give advice to those who still feel lost or in any case cannot grasp this beauty of themselves despite being homosexual (and therefore not "wrong")?

I have no advice to give believing LGBTI people. I can say that I had a very close experience to me. In the past I had a relationship with a believing and very practicing boy. I have always respected his faith, I also accompanied him to Mass on Sunday sometimes. I felt esteem for his faith and for his commitment to putting it into practice in his life. I was less happy when instead I learned that he could not live serenely and in the sunlight his orientation in the parish in which most of his days passed.
This is why faith from religion distinct in a clear way. The Church with her stigmatize makes only the health and serenity of many boys and girls, losing sight of the basis on which the Catholic religion is based. Jesus was crucified and went against death without ever bending to compromise. Without fear of demonstrating and loudly declaring who he was, he killed himself to free all the faithful from sin and death.
And what should your faithful do? Pretend to live another life that is not one's own? Distort yourself? Believe yourself wrong? Accept not to live? If Jesus lived here and now I don't think he would be happy between us.

Thanks for your words marco. You Are perfectly right to say "... what should believers do? To distort themselves? Believe themselves wrong ...".
You must know that In italy, fortunately in recent times there is a beginning Of "opening" also thanks To Pope francis, and there are groups Of Believing homosexual christians, a little scattered throughout italy and who fortunately manage to give light and reconcile these two aspects: Faith and Homosexuality.
There are many LGBT crystatine realities that help people who are in difficulty being themselves, to see the positive and not negative aspects that faith gives, precisely because all "wonderful creatures" of someone, who wanted us as well as we are (therefore also homosexuals).