Gender and Catholicism

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jeeter said:
If it is not part of the doctrine, it is not fair to assign it to believers.
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I kinda disagree here. The Church is a community. If the community is misusing or misunderstanding a teaching, then it doesn’t matter what that teaching really says for practical purposes. What matters is what we do and think, not what we are theologically supposed to think.
 
I don’t think that’s entirely true, though. There are plenty of Catholics (like myself) who don’t care at all about what other Catholics think and do. I’m only interested in what the Catholic Church actually teaches. So what the teaching really says matter a great deal to me.
 
To clarify, how a couple has sex makes their relationship fundamentally different and utterly incomparable to others? Assuming a read your car/airplane analogy correctly. Also, comparing a same-sex couple’s relationship to that between you and your buddy from college seems profoundly condescending. It’s okay to admit that you have no experience from which to tell a LGBT person what their life is. The sacredness of love is cheapened when you reduce it to a definition of genital contact.
 
As we relate to the rest of the world, though, what Catholics actually do is more important to them than what we teach.
 
But what I as a Catholic actually do is to strive to live according to the actual teachings. And I know I’m not the only one. So if someone wants to understand me or Catholics like me, they do have to look at the teachings.
 
It’s not the ONLY purpose. But it should be open to it.
The idea is that sex with the inherent possibility of new life is pure physical love.
Everything else falls under lust and self gratification.

I can’t say I’ve loved women that I’ve used contraception with, but I can say that the physical love with my wife that is open to life is definitely a full physical love that is way more meaningful than any other.

I mean I feel bad saying that the physical love between homosexuals isn’t “real love”, but lust, but that’s how I’d define it.
 
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