Why do heterosexuals having premarital sex continue to receive? Or the married committing adultery? There are a lot of Catholics that shouldn’t receive the Eucharist, but they do. Homosexuals are not sinning to a greater degree than any of the other sinners I mentioned. I’d be careful singling out the practicing homosexuals because your post comes across as their sin is worse than others.
This is a very common caution that tends, unfortunately, to go like this:
If you talk about homosexuality as a sin, you must talk about all sexual sin, lest you single out one sexual sin from the many to the point of obsessing about it.
If you talk about sexual sin, you must talk about all sin, for the same reason–that is, because by talking about sexual sin we might give the impression that we are obsessed with sex or that other sins are not grave
If you talk about grave sin, you must be careful to note that a grave sin is not mortal unless there is not only a grave matter but also consent, since the person who commits a grave act under duress is not culpable.
Besides, we all sin, so how can any of us talk about the sin of others? Should we not take the beam from our own eye before attending the sliver in our brother’s eye?
These are all quite true. We must be careful, however, that we do not forget that there is a ditch on both sides of the road. Let us say that you give people Bibles and let them catch on that certain acts are forbidden, but then lead them away from this passage or that because it upsets someone to be told that they should not commit this act or that. Instead, it is more “peaceful” to lull them into believing that their sins are not worse than anyone else’s and confession is just an exercise in shaming and who of us are really in control of ourselves and not driven by the pressures of our particular trials, which no one else can know, and who is perfect and so what is really a sin, anyway? In the end, the road to perdition is made soft, easy, and gradual. As C.S. Lewis put it, “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
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My brothers, if anyone among you should stray from the truth and someone bring him back, he should know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”
James 5:19-20
He said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him."
Luke 17:1-3
The Lord warned us not to correct others while neglecting to correct ourselves and warned us against using condemnation in place of mercy. He never told his disciples to tell sinners that sin was not sin, nor did he do away with morality or the need for repentance from sin.
Therefore, there is no merit in claiming that something that doesn’t exist actually does.
