expanding further…
you cant… ask me to justify homosexuality. its your belief system that says it is morally wrong, so it is you who must provide evidence supporting your beliefs. I dont have to prove homosexuality right, i just have to prove your argument wrong.
There is obviously such a thing as a sexual health disorder, just as much as there is obviously such a thing as a
mental health disorder. We have people who have sexual desires for children or animals. You might sometimes find people that are turned on sexually by inanimate objects, and yes, there are people who have same sex attractions. There is one thing in common that all these desires have, and this is the fact that they do not fulfil the fundamental nature of a person. Now when I say fundamental, I mean the unified person as “whole” in terms of their entire objective nature as one unified singular. Homosexuality is thus defined as a
disorder because it does not fulfil the natural
form of human beings (
male and
female), and thus undermines the unity that is a person.
Any free human act that does not lead to the
fulfilment of
human nature as a
unified whole is a
sin because it
oppresses and
contradicts human nature as a
unified whole for the sake of some
selfish agenda. The fact that some gay people are truly in love with each-other is irrelevant since falling in love is not what ultimately defines ethically
valuing another human being as an existential whole. One can be
in love and yet be abusive and selfish to their partner, undermining love as a perfectly good act. We can also think that we are doing good when in fact we are undermining the value of human life. To truly
care for and
value the
good of a
person is to wish the
whole of their
form (biological and psychological) the
greatest good in respect of their
whole form. To truly value a human being is to wish them the fulfilment of everything that they are objectively and in their entirety; and in doing so you will attempt to actualise or encourage people to actualise that possibility insofar as that is practical. This includes the fact that they are biologically men and women, because being a man or a women is apart of who we are as persons. Thus, in terms of their sexuality, to wish a “
man” or a “
women” the greatest good is to wish them the fulfilment of the fact that they are “
men” and “
women”; and the biological fulfilment of being a man or a women is a
heterosexual relationship. Thus a person who has homosexual desires but never-the-less hopes for the fulfilment of human beings, will wish for the fulfilment of their heterosexuality despite any desires that they have or unhappiness they incur upon themselves as a result of depriving their sexual erges. They will do this if they truly respect and value what human beings are by nature. Human beings morally fulfil their nature by acting in unison to what they are as a whole. Thus when the nature of the mind acts in unison with the sexual ends to which our biological natures as a whole are in
act (Male & female = heterosexuality ) then that person, as a unified whole, is fulfilling his or her true nature.
Of course, in order to understand that, you would have to first value human nature in it entirety and you would have to admit the teleological nature that is evident in our sexuality and moral discourse. But you obviously do not want to and neither do those who think that homosexuality is no different to heterosexuality, because you perceive the fulfilment of ones immediate desire as being more important than fulfilling ones true nature. We live in an era where people think that human nature is something to be exploited, it is merely an opportunity to exploit the senses; this unfortunately leads some people in the greater sin of perceiving human life and human value as something that is thus dispensable and objectively meaningless. The Catholic faith is trying to keep humanity from going down that destructive path. They are
not trying to oppress sexuality, what we truly are. They are trying to fulfil human sexuality as it truly is; how we truly are. The Church is trying to save the world, it is trying to save a true and fulfilling notion of
humanity that elevates man beyond the pitiful and careless user mentality that we have toward our natures. The church is the last line of defence against the existential nihilism that will soon engulf the world, and is even now consuming our children.
