For the scholastics: Help out Deist on why homosexuality is wrong

[esieffe]

I smoked for decades. My Dad died from stage III lung cancer last year. It remains to be seen if I will meet a similar fate for the abuse my body suffered.

Everything I said was most certainly not judgmental, thank you for the benefit of the doubt. Far be it for me to judge any person, especially when it comes to sins of the flesh. My faith calls me to aim for sainthood, and though that is the goal, I often fail miserably. I do get back up.

Deism really, is where many good people fall today. For me it looks like a place to begin given the era we live in, but not the end. I hope that maybe someday your faith will evolve. Till then it will be my pleasure to see you on the boards.

pax

 

[rom]

Could you elaborate on this. Because it seems you can use genitals to cause pleasure quite successfully. That’s not the intended purpose of those genitals, but it can be subsumed within a desire to please another person. How is that counted as contrary, while whistling is counted as just another purpose.

I’m coming late on this thread, but let me address this one. The primary purpose of the genitals in not to cause pleasure but to produce an offspring. Pleasure is a gift that God gives to encourage the proper use of the genitals. Therefore, as the genitals can only be used properly to produce an offspring by its application with the genitals of the opposite sex, the pleasure associated with their use is morally justified only when the genitals are used with a person of the opposite sex. This does not happen in a homosexual act, because homosexual acts do not produce an offspring. Therefore, pleasure in homosexual acts is illicit or sinful pleasure.

 

[Todd_Easton]

Don’t know if this will help but…
Clement of Alexandria, somewhere in his work, The Instructor (Paedagogus), Book 2, Chapter 10, is supposed to argue against homosexual sex and other forms of immoral sexual behavior, likening a male’s ejaculation of semen during sex to a farmer sowing seed, saying, “… the seed ought not be wasted nor scattered thoughtlessly nor sown in a way it cannot grow.” (source; see also slightly different translation, here) Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a complete English translation of that particular chapter online, only partial English translations of the chapter, such as here.

I know, instead of sowing seed that it might grow, a farmer might also use seed to make bread or beer…