Original sin and being gay. --Article opposes view that if God creates some people homosexual rather than heterosexual, that must be good too

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The Role of Original Sin in the Homosexuality Debate

“This means that when the Church calls homosexual inclinations ‘objectively disordered,’ she’s not saying that homosexuality has a monopoly on this designation. Rather, because of original sin, we’re all objectively disordered. As a result of the Fall, we all have inclinations to commit various sins, and those inclinations are all disordered.”

 

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This means that when the Church calls homosexual inclinations ‘objectively disordered,’ she’s not saying that homosexuality has a monopoly on this designation. Rather, because of original sin, we’re all objectively disordered. As a result of the Fall, we all have inclinations to commit various sins, and those inclinations are all disordered."

All humans suffer from concupiscence, which is the inbuilt inclinations towards sin, but that doesn’t make us all objectively disordered. In Catholic language, to call something objectively disorder means that it is inherently contrary to proper order. It is the nature of the inclination itself which is contrary to order, not the way in which that inclination is acted upon.

To provide a contrast, eating is ordered towards the good, but can be undertaken in such a way that it becomes sinful, as can most activities. Homosexual acts, on the other hand, cannot ever be undertaken in a way that is ordered towards the good, so they are objectively disordered.

Homosexuality is not the only thing that is objectively disordered, it’s just the disorder that gets the most attention right now due to our culture.

Another thing to bear in mind is that objectively-disordered inclinations impart no moral character to the person that suffers from them. A person is not immoral simply for experiencing homosexual desires, they only sin when they act on that inclination.