Applying the Catechism to Homosexuality

[cena]

With all respect, 1735 says that the grave matter culpability may even be nullified, so sin may not necessarily remain.

So if a married man is constantly tempted to commit adultery 24/7 does that circumstance make adultery okay?
SSA will not reduce culpability because if you read the catechism they talk about people with SSA
"2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection."

They are expected to not engage in it and there is nothing that says that the acts are reduce for those with the disorder

 

[sirach2v4]

Therefore, if someone .

you mean God and the Church?

wants to argue .

that is, paragraph 1735 of the Catechism

that same-sex attraction limits culpability, it seems to me that it must either diminish your freedom more than opposite-sex attraction does

wouldn’t life-long chastity of someone with SSA limit sexual freedom more than someone without SSA? (it defaults to mandated, unnegotiated lifelong chastity. You can’t decide if that is less freedom than someone without SSA?

or else limit your knowledge. To me, the latter seems more likely, at least on its surface.

It is indeed one of the possibilities for SSA Catholics who have been raised in the Post-Vatican II church where routine catechesis is considered very inadequate. They may either default to “God made me this way” or be uncatechised to the position of the church on homosexuality, or to 1735.

 

[sirach2v4]

thank you all for participating in this discussion. 1735 must mean SOMETHING and I don’t think it should fall to the luck-of-the-draw of which confessor someone confides in.