It would always depend on the circumstances around who and what they were and what they can commit to. Just like the Catholic church realizes that homosexual tendancies can be transitory and allow people that had transitory tendancies to enter the priesthood. The same can be said about marriage.
Why don’t you ask the same question similar to? If a person that doesn’t have SSA cheats on his girlfriend, has a lust to cheat on his girlfriend or is an adulterer and gets caught would you ever want to marry them? Would you want your child to marry one?
Great point!
I would expand on this to include addiction to pornography and even lustful thoughts, either same sex or different sex! Yet to the degree that we allow grace to work in our lives we can overcome our fallen passions and embrace true love, agape!
As for everyone claiming that homosexuality does not need to be cured…remmeber that all forms of sin and concupicence need to be “cured” not by therepy or by “boot camps” but by the grace of God working in our lives. This goes to disordered heterosexuality as well as disordered (all) homosexuality. We are all in need of divine assistance. I say this not to judge; though I myself do not experiance same sex attraction, for years I have struggled with an addiction to pornography. In many ways I still do, and with a lustfull heart. But by the grace of God I have made some progress in removing these desires, desires to use women and my own body as objects of selfish gratification.
I’m NOT saying the people experiencing ssa are “more broken” than I am or any other heterosexual who has lust in their heart, only that we are all partly dead inside due to sin. To clarify, I am not saying that persons with ssa did something bad and God punished that individual with homosexuality; only that all forms of sexual concupiscence are a result of mankind’s sinful, fallen state, same sex or otherwise.
I guess what I’m saying is that homosexuality and all other forms of disordered sexual attraction (again, a man who looks at a woman with lust is experiencing disordered sexual attraction) is a state contrary to how we were in the beginning, and it all should in an ideal world be corrected. God will correct this if we a) ask(prayer and fasting, etc) and if b)its in His soverign plan. It may be that SSA is a cross you must bear for your own sanctification, in which case battling this attraction can be your path to holiness.
These are my off the cuff knee jerk reactions, feel free to ignore/criticize whatever you will.
I highly recommend everyone gets “naked without shame, a crash course in the theology of the body” by Christopher West. Its a ten cd audio set, great stuff.
In closing, to address Fitswimmer, no, I don’t think you are mentally ill, but you, me and everyone else IN THE WORLD does need “fixing” in that we have yet to attain perfection.
