It’s a difficult subject. Gays should be loved and respected as human beings created in the image and likeness of God. However, the lifestyle is not a means of celebration. I lived that lifestyle for 20 years, and it was surprisingly very stressful and not liberating at all. I drank and smoked heavily to cope, and it nearly killed me. I went to confession and have been celibate for 6 years.

I love her emphasis on not minimizing heterosexual sin in light of homosexuality. I have met people who love to talk about how deep in sin homosexuals might be, while also fornicating on a monthly basis.

DON'T DISOWN THEM. You'd be shocked how many parents stupidly resort to this. They are your own flesh and blood. You made them, now love them. Disowning them will only push them away, and ironically DEEPER into that lifestyle. It will make them see you (and Christianity) as an untrustworthy enemy, and it will be entirely your fault. Jesus didn't shame the woman caught in adultery. He saved her.

I am living this. Prayers for my son Isaiah would be amazing. He came out to us almost a year ago. We had a big conversation and he knows we love him (though I did view him differently for awhile) and I cried behind closed doors to my Husband (yes some may judge me for that but it’s true). He’s only 15 so thankfully has had no experience, not even a first kiss, with a male (or female). To say I’m not hoping that it was just confusion, would be a lie. And I have no idea how I’m going to cope with future things if he is actually gay. But I love him sooo much and I know God will carry us through 🙏🏽

Fr. James Martin creeping like….. 🙂”hey.”

Wow! 3:00 onward. Thanks for exploring this topic and doing so with such honesty. The power of not talking, the power of holding someone and crying with them, allowing them to cry. Wow!

This is a beautiful serious conversation, but that Fr. James Martin sliding in in the corner was gold!! xD

This is the first interview of Matt's that I could not turn off and listen to later. I was on my lunch break. I put a leave of absence just so I could finish the show. God bless you Kim for sharing your story.

Her point just at the end is often missed by so many. I hated when my classmates would put down homosexuals so aggressively when they were busy fornicating. Double standards irked me a great deal. Lust is lust, sin is sin, mortal sin is mortal sin.

Oh my gosh this made me cry. In my 20’s I moved in with my boyfriend. We hid from his parents but my parents knew and even helped me move. They said later it was the hardest thing they ever did. But what they did for me during that time was the greatest gift they ever game me. They kept their hearts connected to mine. I ended up marrying that guy. We have three beautiful children and are serving the Lord. God didn’t let go of me, my parents didn’t let go of me, and somewhere inside I held on to the principles I’d been raised with and God brought me through. It’s not a matter of if we sun but when we sin and how can we as Christians best love someone exactly where they are and let the Holy Spirit do what he needs to do.

THE EDITING!!! 😂😂😂 I absolutely died when Fr Martin popped up in the corner lmaooo

It's very interesting to me that I only found out in my 20s that my dad had thought I was lesbian for years, due to my complete lack of crushes on/interest in boys except as friends. Apparently he was afraid he'd scare me away if he asked about it so he had been waiting for me to mention it to him. In reality I'm basically asexual. I also have attachment issues, particularly with other women (mostly from being raised by a highly intrusive, dysfunctional mother) which meant I wouldn't in a million years have thought of women as "safe" to be in even a friendship with, let alone anything more intimate...hence why all the guy friends. But just knowing that at least one of my parents wasn't going to disown me even though they thought I was gay meant everything to me. In my opinion, if you're a parent and you care about your kids, pushing them away further because your ego is hurt/you feel shame that other people will judge your parenting if your kid has SSA, isn't going to help. It will just show your kid that you are more attuned to the judgement of others than you are to your own child's suffering.

Kim Zember is such an insightful, compassionate, holy woman. This thought kept popping into my head as I was watching this clip: "She would be an exceptional psychologist or counsellor."

Terrific guest. God bless her!

My brother is gay and starting to venture into the lifestyle. I've told him that I believe the Church on this and I'm worried about him, but that I love him. We're still close, we still nerd out together for an hour or two at a time about our shared interests. I pray for him a lot. If both people are mature enough, you can deeply disagree on something, and know where the other stands, and it not end the relationship.

“Oh, father James Martin popped up!” Any indirects!?! 😊

You know why its pointed at and highlighted? Because nobody else has a month long celebration for their sins nor books to normalize it in school

That's great advice, to love and suffer with them. I am disturbed by the modern usage of that blessed word "truth" when she said it was her mother's truth. The truth _is_ . Either we are right or wrong, she probably meant that is how her mother felt and thought about that difficult issue.

This is great, I’ve often wondered how I could handle this if it happened with my kids. I cannot fathom cutting them out or not loving them. It’s obviously not the right approach. But genuinely curious, how far do you take being a supportive and loving parent, without actually supporting the sin? Like if your child never comes around, and gets has a same sex marriage, and adopts children…. what do you do? 😩

Thank you for sharing this, hard to admit to be so wrong

I totally agree...I never understood why homosexual sin was seen as the big sin and what about literally every other sin that is also grave.

James Martin edit😂

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Ok, but check out what I have to say. Lets change these vertical spine titles together. #CoalitionAgainstVerticalSpineTitles

Thankful to see you brought in a reputable person instead of the grifter Andrew Comiskey

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00 *🗣️ Personal Experience with Coming Out* - Kim, the speaker, shares her experiences about 'coming out' related to same-sex attraction, setting the scene of the conversation with a Priest who influenced her decision. - Talks about viewing the sunset and seeing colors in a new light as an epiphany during the transition of coming out. She interprets it as a potential sign from God appreciating her transparency, although not necessarily endorsing her subsequent decisions. 02:31 *👪 Family Reactions and Being Honest* - Retells her experience coming out to her family, specifically her mom who had asked her about her sexuality previously. - Distinguishes between celebrating a person (their honesty and authenticity) and celebrating their decisions or actions. 03:38 *🎯 Advice for Parents on Handling Their Children's Coming Out* - Urges parents to meet their children where they are at, without unwarranted celebration or condemnation. - Advocates for parents to maintain their beliefs but refrain from reiterating disapproval of their child's sexuality. 04:59 *💭 Broader Insights into Dealing with Homosexuality from a Spiritual Perspective* - Discusses bearing the burden of sin, using analogies to highlight the individual's experiences, for example, the hangover after getting drunk. - Emphasizes on the need to ask the Holy Spirit for guidance on how to bear the burden when loved ones engage in various lifestyles that go against divine orders, including homosexuality. - Concludes by touching upon the societal tendency to amplify the sin of homosexuality over other sins, which often makes individuals struggling with same-sex attraction feel like 'lepers' within society. Made with HARPA AI

Very good to see kim still out there fighting for the truth (and after kim spent a week with us in Northern Colorado)!

It’s baffling to me how many of these comments are literally missing the point 🤦🏾‍♂️

Greatest sinners can be the greatest saints. Put on the armor of Christ❤

Do: Show love and respect with an openness of mind and that you're willing to support them unconditionally. Don't: Disown them or try to convert them into heterosexuals. Also don't tell them they're going to hell.

Did anyone else think, from the thumbnail, that this was MTG (Marjorie Taylor Greene)?

In the beginning she talks about a priest who's "not a priest anymore", and married? How's that even possible??

"What do do if your child comes out with Kim Zember" how would his coming out alongside Kim Zember be any different than his coming out alone?

Ew… She just divorced human compassion from Divine compassion, even though true human compassion is Divine compassion, because all that it is to be God and all that is truly human finds its reality in the theandric God-Man. If there was any measure of genuine compassion coming from the guy she was speaking of, then it was of God. Freakin’ dualists, man🙄

I’m not sure on which position you or your guest stands.

This woman is amazing

Priestly celibacy is not normal either. Leaving the "priesthood" and marrying a woman is also a release from an unbiblical lifestyle and moving to what is the normal Christian experience, at least for some people..

First advice? Don't make it about the bible and sin as the first response. First and foremost, it's between you and your child.

Serious question. So the best outcome of being born same sex attracted means one should endure a lifetime of celibacy?

She is fortunate to have a mother who loved her and gave her a foundation of what sin is?

I've known many SSA who experienced some level of CSA or other abuse at a VERY young age, so that's something else to keep in mind.

Are you supporting throwing gays away into hell or what?. I wasn’t sure

Why did God make us so complex?

My oldest told me he was bisexual. Broke my heart. I’m the only person I know who thinks I’m crazy not accepting this. I met his partner. Nice chap. Still breaks my heart

Great video, though it must be said (and I'm not correcting her as shes right that all sexual sin is bad) but I dont want to gloss over that homosexual sin specifically cries out to God for vengeance. So there is another degree to it. With that said, I agree with everything else on how to help people with these disordered desires.

Sounds like a lot to Cope with your SIn.

Well when your child comes out usually most mothers breastfeed it.

GET OUT OF HERE FR. JAMES MARTIN!!! I SEE YOU!!

1:32 so creepy xD amazing frank talk

He bore her burden. But he made her burden less in order to make his bearing it with her easier for him. Secular society envisages compassion as only making other's lives easier. But in reality, real compassion is bearing others burdens with them. Bearing the burden of accepting and embracing ones same sex attraction is an easier burden to bear than the one Christ calls us to. And I think that although we want to have compassion and bear others burdens, but we don't want to bear the burden God calls us to, so we subvert others' burdens to make our bearing their burden easier on us. We pretend to have the compassion of Jesus, to feel like we are good and holy, but without actually having the compassion of Christ. It's a selfish motivation to get the feeling of holiness without the work of actually being holy. Typical sin. This seems to be the case in euthanasia, pro choice advocacy and in LGBT supporters.

I haven’t watched the full interview and it’s not exactly clear what she is talking about, but something is off about this lady. I have never, ever heard anyone say that God was saying “thank you” to them. Seems chillingly narcissistic.

She looks and talks pretty masculine, so it doesn’t surprise me that she is a lesbian. Or maybe that is just my prejudice and I am projecting onto her?

Tell them, “No.”

This is sad. I hope she realizes that she is not wrong to love.