Kudos to the Franciscan University for calling a spade a spade. I hope they will not back down in the face of bullies.
How can sexual orientation be, in any way, equated with violent crime? Doesn’t seem to jive with the spirit of CCC 2358. Based on the description alone (in its entirety) it seems that the entire course is complete bunk. How “structural conditions in society” foster, for example, mental illness? :ehh:
Disordered sexual orientation is the sin de jour, but it is still a sin (if acted on, obviously). It is an act against the 10 Commandments, just as the others are.
Ok, then why not drop it into a course dealing exclusively with, for lack of a better term, thought crimes? Sexual orientation is in no way similar to rape and murder.
Since when have we added mental illness as a sin though?
Acting on unnatural proclivities drives unlawful behaviors. They’ve included drug use, probably for the same reason. Should also include uncontrolled alcoholism which drives many crimes–although maybe they’re lumping that in with drug abuse.
It’s a course on deviant behavior, not crime. All mentioned behaviors are deviant though not necessarily criminal in the eyes of civil law.
I would buy that. By its title you can see that it’s in the social work department. It’s a class on deviant behaviors in society.
Didn’t say that it was
Homosexuality is not a thought crime, it is an action.
But the college course description has that in there and you lumped all of the other staments in that description in with your response.Didn’t say that it was
We must be wary of the “psychologization” of sin, though. Mainly because it misses the point. I have a genetic predisposition to sin XYZ. So what? We are rational and religious beings. Fight the urges.
I think this is the central point of the controversy. The alumni who are objecting state that homosexuality is not a deviant behavior. The university, in contrast, says the term “deviant” means “different from the norm,” which suggests a value-neutral approach.
Neither is mental illness. We’re lumping people who have depression w/ rapists & murders?
If you are attracted to the same sex then you are a homosexual. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation; there is no action that is exclusively homosexual in nature.
Honestly, you should know from reading these boards long enough now that homosexuality is considered the acting upon same sex attraction in the Catholic viewpoint. Acting in any sexual manner based upon same sex attraction is a sin in the eyes of the Church. Either way it is said here, you have seen it and are trying to impose what you and those with homosexualist agendas would like things to be seen like. Not working hon.
I’m aware of what members post on this board. Whether it is factual is another matter entirely.
