Louisiana Catholic Church says gay relationships are sinful, and those who do not think it a sin are like the devil who twists the truth

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That certainly is not true. Smoking meth does not hurt anyone else nor does not wearing a seatbelt. Not very good logic.
 
NorbertineTom said:
You did say Christ did not speak of this.
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Christ did not, but those entrusted to guide His Church have, specifically St. Paul.
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Crimes are acts which hurt others. Making it a crime to watch porn seems wrong.
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Not only does the porn industry encourage the trafficking and abuse of women, porn consumption itself is linked to a large variety of detrimental effects on the human brain.
 
An act performed between two consenting adults. And considered a normal and acceptable part of human sexuality by every credible medical group I am family with.

Such an act cannot be compared to the rape of a child. This is an unimaginably wretched and cruel act which destroys the life of the victim.

This is why comparing homosexuality and pedophelia is unfair and hurtful to many people.
 
Just because an act is consensual does not make morally good. If someone is consensually euthanized it does not make it morally okay. Same sex attraction maybe a part of the human experience but that does not mean homosexual action is morally okay.
 
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Sex trafficking is not required to make porn. As a physician I can tell you the “detrimental effects” you speak of are far less impactful than, say, drinking alchohol.
 
And? Rape is a terrible crime, but does that mean we cannot target theft or assault? Relative damage means nothing. We should work against all damaging and addictive substances, regardless of their relative damage.
 
If you don’t consider “relative damage” then you court the extremes. Christ steers clear of this.
 
In either case, pornography is recognized by the Church as a grave societal ill, and specifically states that it should be made illegal.
 
Death by stoning provided there are two reliable eyewitnesses to the act. Give me that ol’ time religion!
 
Comparing those who do not believe this to be a sin to the devil twisting the truth does not seem to me to be loving the sinner. Rather, it seems to be hating both the sin and the sinner. Who compares a human being made in the image and likeness of Gd to the devil except someone who hates that human being?
 
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Nonsense. Can priests be forced to perform bar mitzvahs?
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Did you read the sources about the last administration trying to outlaw “don’t tread on me”? Hard to believe, yet we live in different times today.

Jews (Mitzvahs) are not trying to force Catholic priest to marry same sex couples. It is secular laws that are treading upon the Christian faith morals and trying to break down the moral fabric of humanity’s natural law of the family, consisting of a Father, Mother and Children. This is the natural law of our humanity, yet the secular world view wants to break it down, I ask why?
 
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Jesus Christ Himself (we just had the reading this Sunday) told St. Peter, “Get thee behind me, Satan”.

Comparing a person’s actions To the actions of the demonic is the same as comparing the actions to the angelic (the good ones).

If the devil is performing evil actions (he is) and a human being performs evil actions, he is acting ‘like the devil does’.

Heck, Jesus even told the Pharisees that they were being led “by their father the devil, who is the prince of lies”.

There is a difference between saying to a person, “your actions are evil, like those of a devil” (sin is evil) and saying, “YOU are a devil”.

Unfortunately people seem unwilling to make the distinction. In today’s world, you ARE your actions, therefore you take PRIDE in your actions. Your actions are not seen as something you choose to do, they are considered to represent your whole self.
 
Nepperhan said:
Nonsense. Can priests be forced to perform bar mitzvahs?
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They can’t be forced to, but they can be penalized if they don’t, which will be the primary way the people behind this bill will seek to punish those who disagree with them. I don’t think any of the bill’s proponents actually believe that priests will preside over homosexual “weddings,” at least none of the faithful priest, so the only thing this bill could possibly accomplish is to create a means by which they could punish the “heretics” to liberal thought.
 
Rau said:
Always seems odd to me that health insurance is bound up with employment in the US.
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After WWII, an overreaching federal government mandate froze wages in a misguided effort to control inflation. In order to attract employees, employers added health care as a benefit. The tax advantaged program spread quickly and by the 1960’s employee-sponsored-health-care was dug in as the standard. Until it broke.

Yes. The founding fathers understood human nature as fallen and, unlike the liberals today, not perfectible if we could just legislate the right laws to control and incentivize the populace.

Fearing a central government would slowly but persistently take power from the states to itself and having a fear of anything “big”, the second amendment insured that Jefferson’s foresight would not be constitutionally precluded:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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