If homosexuality is contrary to natural law, then why did God create people that way?

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Freddy said:
There was a thread not so long ago wherein you made many disparaging remarks about gay people and more than once compared their ‘sin’ to bestiality. That thread was closed and I’m pretty certain it was because of that.
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That would be a strange reason to close it, since that’s a valid Catholic Answer: Masturbation, Sodomy and Bestiality are all sins of what is called the “'unnatural vice”; that is, abuse of the sexual faculty directly contrary to its natural purpose. We should not judge though because I’m pretty sure the vast majority of us are guilty of at least one of those at some point in our lifetimes (the most obvious one). The other two are relatively rare and progressively more disordered. One is extremely rare and probably was more common in earlier eras.
 
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Neithan said:
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Freddy:
There was a thread not so long ago wherein you made many disparaging remarks about gay people and more than once compared their ‘sin’ to bestiality. That thread was closed and I’m pretty certain it was because of that.
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That would be a strange reason to close it, since that’s a valid Catholic Answer: Masturbation, Sodomy and Bestiality are all sins of what is called the “'unnatural vice”; that is, abuse of the sexual faculty directly contrary to its natural purpose. We should not judge though because I’m pretty sure the vast majority of us are guilty of at least one of those at some point in our lifetimes (the most obvious one). The other two are relatively rare and progressively more disordered. One is extremely rare and probably was more common in earlier eras.
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If you can’t see anything wrong in drawing comparisons between someone’s gay daughter or son or mother with people who have sex with animals then there is nothing at all that I can say to you that would make you understand how utterly demeaning that is.

Don’t expect me to reply to any further posts that do so.
 
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Lara said:
to say that I’m playing the victim is a pejorative way of stating the truth. We ARE victims in this. When society’s children have to learn falsehoods about sexuality in kindergarten, when they get confused because the teacher states gender is fluid, when a parent has to watch their spouse take their kid in for gender reassignment surgery or medication against their wishes via the courts, we ALL suffer; and we have the LGBT community to thank for all of that.
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Those are select instances that are not common. Christians are going to have to preserve the faith themselves and I certainly don’t trust American society to help in any shape or form. Everyone wants to be a victim and overexagerated complaints give it away.
 
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Don’t fail to notice the connection is with most people who have committed any of those three sins, one of which is widespread. You immediately seem to be drawing a connection with only two. And these vices are progressively more destructive. Am I demeaning myself? No, I’m pointing out the truth, which is a liberating thing. And not uncharitably, since I said not to judge in a way that condemns, as if I am somehow better.

If outrage (albeit confused) makes it easier for you than engaging with ethics, that’s fine. You are not obligated to reply. Be aware that is Catholic teaching.
 
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Man is born with all kinds of defects and trials. Its part of being man. We are required to suffer through them. No different than someone that finds themselves an alcoholic. Just because you have the defect dies not mean its ok to act on the defect.

God destroyed Sodom and Ghamorrah for people acting on homosexuality. Paul vehemently preached against it in Romans 1 verse 20 onward.

We all have our crosses to bear. Same sex attraction is no bigger cross than the kid thats born with MS or any other disease.

Problem is todays morality is moral relativism. Todays society doesnt believe an any absolute right or wrong. Its just whats socialably acceptable.

This is exactly what happened at the end of the roman empire. Everyone was concerned with their own pleasure. Morals went to hell. No more concern about their fellow man let alone their country. The idea of joining the military to defend the country became non existent. People joined different sects ( non religious) under different senators or generals all fighting to become the ceaser. Ignored the defense of roman borders. And it all went to crap.
 
WannabeSaint said:
I’m concerned why God created them with an unnatural desire to begin with.
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That’s because one of the effects of the Fall was concupiscence which means that we desire things that aren’t in accord with God’s law.
 
Mental defect. Abuse at young age. Non of it excuses it or makea it not a mortal sin.
 
BenjaminJ said:
Mental defect. Abuse at young age
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Abuse is uncommon so I don’t think that’s a significant cause. Mental defects sounds dubious because their mental health is usually fine and if it’s not that could be because they have been treated poorly.
BenjaminJ said:
None of it excuses it or makes it not a mortal sin.
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I’m not saying that.
 
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Same sex attraction in and of itself is . . . an objective disorder (CCC 2358).
 
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True those of us who don’t understand it as an experience, rather than something we observe from the outside, cannot really explain it, or any temptation to anything we don’t’ experience. It just looks like something happening in the brain like everything else.
 
Thorolfr said:
You’re free to believe what you want, but most psychologists and psychiatrists and the main national organizations which represent them no longer consider homosexuality to be a psychological disorder.
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That’s because they were aggressively lobbied and became agenda driven. It doesn’t necessarily mean that same-sex attraction isn’t a disorder. Aren’t some psychologists looking to treat pedophilia as a “sexual-orientation” now? Also a man who thinks they are woman isn’t a mental illness anymore either. It’s just the persons “true identity”. I’m sorry but it’s all absolute nonsense.
 
People are born homosexual. People are born heterosexual.
Genesis 1 concludes:
And it was good
And it was good
And it was good
And it was very good,
For creation.
All in God’s image for man.
Sex is one issue. Who we love is another.
 
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I am born heterosexual. It isn’t possible that I would not be. So it is for homosexuals. Including in the animal kingdom.
 
If you believe I chose an attraction to women, or to love my wife romantically, you are incorrect. So it is for homosexuals
 
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