I don’t disagree. I also think there are many God-fearing Catholics who while recognising homosexual activity itself to be sinful, would like the Church to be almost infinitely more loving towards and accepting of people who are attracted to their own gender. It’s not beyond the wit of man (it’s certainly not beyond the wit of Our Lord) to find a way celebrate human love in all its forms.
We can surely celebrate the love without celebrating sex.
Not when “love” has been redefined as two people getting together in a sexual context.
Well that’s a fair enough point to be sure! Let’s assume that I at least mean ‘platonic love’ in this context.
Good questions. Since the CC considers all sexual contact outside of marriage sinful I wonder about the motives of the church targeting same sex attraction as being extraordinary. Certainly there are a lot less homosexual sinners than unmarried couples cohabiting and many more adulterers, Why not just leave it as a sin and not invite the unintended consequences of alienating more Catholics and non-Catholics?
This is true. I see more and more single catholic mothers. The church needs to get it’s priorties in order. Forget the ss “problem” It would seem that ss union is the bigger sin, yet any sex outside of marriage is disordered? wrong? and we do not hear the church preaching about this as much as ss issues.
There’s nothng like married homosexual lifestyle. whether or not they have a legal document is inconsequential to whether or not they are committing grave evil.
We had this topic/issue as a family discussion at an extended family reunion (why does the CHurch seem obsessed with gay sex and passes over other sexual sins). The consensus:
“…fearing God is good because it saves us from caving into our own sinful nature. That’s why hearing someone is God-fearing actually makes us trust that person more. If they fear God, they are more likely to keep their word and treat others with kindness.”
I agree with this, but I also believe that I caused myself grave sin when I engaged in heterosexual premarital sex - and that’s true for everyone else.
I’ve always wondered that myself.
I find this quote by St. Ignatius to be very useful when speaking of love.
Because same sex attraction is extraordinary. It is disordered. Further, sexual acts that are performed by those with SSA are more than disordered. They are totally abhorrent. Most people simply do not consider what, exactly, is done in homosexual sex. They just focus on the “love”. I simply cannot understand why people seem to blind themselves in this way.
That’s a beautiful quotation and I couldn’t agree more.
