The Catholic Church does not teach that homosexuals are sinners. It teaches that homosexual activity is sinful. The distinction is important. Homosexuals are not obligated to become straight. They are, however, expected to refrain from sexual activity.
Just for the record, BEING homosexual is not a sin. ACTING on it is. The same way acting on ANY sexual urges outside of the sacrament of marriage is a sin.
who is “we” who insists all homosexuals are sinners? not the Catholic Church so identify yourself, and by what authority you make such a blanket condemnation. Anyone who is engaging in any sinful acts or lifestyle, of whatever description that violates the commandments, has the same option: conversion, turning away from sin, sacramental confession and absolution, return to the sacraments and return to life in Christ and with his Church, and amendment of life. Like the other 6 billion people on the planet who struggle with various temptations and sinful inclinations as the result of original sin, they can turn to identification with the passion, death and resurrection of Christ and immersion in his grace through the sacraments for help.
First on the list of ideas: Prayer and fasting!
There was a time when psychologists and psychiatrists were telling us that marital faithfulness was bad.
The Catholic Church does NOT claim that homosexuals are sinners, in fact, it is a sin to discriminate against anyone based on their orientation. We are called to love all of our neighbors- which is everybody. Can you change your orientation to homosexual? So why do you think that the reverse is possible?
Well, what you do is get yourself into one of these crackpot ministry/therapy groups, proclaim yourself in recovery from your “disordered” impulses, hook up with some poor delusional woman who buys into it all. You then become the darlings of the Christian media, get some fat paid speaking engagements and find a release for your “terrible” urges with a supple young male prostitute who is also an “ex-gay” and now works as your “executive assistant” and 24-hour manservant.
Both this and the OP present disgustingly simplistic oversimplifications of a very complex issue. Not everyone with a drinking problem is necessarily an alcoholic yet. But it is generally agreed that there is no such thing as an “ex-alcoholic.”Well, what you do is get yourself into one of these crackpot ministry/therapy groups, proclaim yourself in recovery from your “disordered” impulses, hook up with some poor delusional woman who buys into it all. You then become the darlings of the Christian media, get some fat paid speaking engagements and find a release for your “terrible” urges with a supple young male prostitute who is also an “ex-gay” and now works as your “executive assistant” and 24-hour manservant.
At least, that’s the usual way. Your mileage may vary!
Because heterosexuality is normal healty human behaviour and response whereas homosexuality may well be rooted in psychological regression and fear of the female leading to the barren narcissistic phallic worship known as gayness.
That’s a total nonsequitur.
:thumbsup:Awesome and “to-the-point” response.
Well that’s kind of ironic, because for me, I have a hard time reconciling what my conscience tells me with what civil law, the courts, and the media tell me. In fact, as the decades go by and I see more of humanity just being humanity, I find myself more and more opposed to gay rights, especially as my grasp of human rights issues matures and deepens. In fact, at the risk of saying too much, as I study Catholic social teaching, I dare say that a Catholic theocracy would have to be the most just society on earth.
Um, that was proven wrong fifty years ago. It was one of Freuds hairbrained ideas that was proven wrong by overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Any single sexual act, except rape, is a choice.
A Catholic theocracy sounds like a terrible idea. No religion should ever, under any circumstance, force its beliefs on a nation.