Well, permissible or not, they can’t change it. I suppose that means their whole existence is a sin. In paragraph 2358, the Catechism describes the homosexual orientation as “disordered,” but never says that it is a sin unto itself.
With God’s grace, they can change. The homosexual is no more lost than the kleptomaniac or the glutton. We do them a disservice if we confirm them in their disorders.
2358 …] This [homosexual] inclination, which is
objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. …].
2514 St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life. In the Catholic catechetical tradition, the ninth commandment forbids carnal concupiscence; the tenth forbids coveting another’s goods.
Therefore, God handed them over to
degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity (Romans 1:26-27).
Clear to me. The Homosexual inclination (passion) is “lust.” It is the same passion that moves the adulterer and the fornicator to engage in illicit sex. The ninth commandment forbids lust of any kind.
St. Paul tells us that the homosexual disposition is both “unnatural” and “degrading.” As such, this concupiscible disordered appetite is to be subordinated to reason and will. As with all evil inclinations; prayer, mortification and penance are the prescriptive cures.
We all have crosses and life is a trail. Should those whose cross is the homosexual inclination as those who bear the crosses of adulterer inclination and fornicator inclination not work to rid themselves of their evil inclinations? Is not the homosexual lust as is the adulterer’s lust a sin? How is homosexual lust categorically different than the adulterer’s lust which Christ taught is sin in itself?
