It is gravely disordered and it is serious, but in and of itself, it carries no culpability.
Is this an unintentional pun?
The way you frame the question is incorrect. The Church does not speculate as to whether or not homosexuality as an orientation is biological or chosen (for some it certainly is chosen).
We all have various inclinations to sin, and “homosexuals” are no different. Having an inclination to sin is not sin.
Gottle of Geer said:## Orientations are neutral - like gravity or taste. You have an orientation too - everyone does
What one does with being of this or that orientation, is where morals come in. ##
It is neutral in the sense that the person afflicted with such a tendency is not morally culpable for it. Acting on the tendency is another matter.
I’ll need a citation before I believe that.
Correct it is not in itself a sin to have SSA but one cannot sat the SSA is neutral as it is intrinsically disordered.
The Church does not affirm yet that SSA is an mental disorder rather it says that SSA is intrinsically disordered. These are two very different things.
The Church doesn’t have the competance to rule on whether it is a mental disorder or not. She can only comment/rule/teach that the acts are sinful, because they always have been sinful. She makes no comment on any thing else, other than the fact that it is disordered (“contrary to order,” in this case, the natural order and natural law"). What I’m saying is that the Church isn’t a doctor and doesn’t claim to be.
penWindow(‘cr/2357.htm’) Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.“142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
Yup, we don’t disagree on that one.
The homosexual orientation is intrinsically disordered, not evil. Check the Catechism. Anyway, the vast majority of people don’t chose to be homosexual anymore than people chose to be heterosexual. Homosexual orientation is blameless, but that doesn’t mean that it is natural. It is homosexual acts that are evil. Homosexuals, like all Christians, are called to chastity.
It’s reasonable to say there are various causes of homosexuality. There is no preponderance of evidenc for any of them.
What do you mean when you say SSA is ordered to contraception?
What does intrinsically disordered mean? I’m not trying to pick at your words, but have never understood what the Church is talking about when they use such terms.
