Not necessarily. We honestly do not know who is destined to Hell. Only God knows if they truly admit to heresy. Also, they may well confess. Who knows? I certainly don’t. We can only hope for heretics who openly deny Christ’s teachings.
As I said before in this thread:
Why should we have murder illegal then? After all, I believe murder wrong. Just like abortion. But why don’t we legalize someone intentionally killing another person?
*“Mainstream” * society does not see it as murder OR sees it as a necessary evil.
I may disagree with that. In fact I do disagree with that, but I must respect “mainstream” soicety.
LEGALLY Speaking…I’m taking legally not theologically…murder is only considered “muder” only if it viable outside the womb. Thats what the law says. I believe abortion destoyies life and kills life.
“I believe abortion is wrong, but it shouldnt illegall” is the same as saying “I believe abortion is wrong, but it shouldn’t be illegal” or “I think rape is wrong, but it shouldn’t be illegal.”
^ That didn’t make any sense. Sorry.
The Popes for the last 2,000 years say that abortion should be illegal. Why listen to a priest compared to the popes? Pope Benedict XVI - an expert theologian, scholar, intellectual - believes it should be illegal. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the most appreciated cardinal in the US, believes this as well.
As I said before, morality and legality are two sperate issues. If this is what the American people want, than so be it. I’ll respect that. The United States is a Democratic Republic. People came to this country to escape religious persecution. We live in a diverse country, and if we include different religious doctrine in the American legal system, than it’s not going to be fair to other religions and if we include ALL religions, than it will be hard to be fair. Example: There are three versions of the Ten Commandments…There’s the Jewish Version, there’s the Catholic version, and there’s the Protestant version, so it will be hard to erect three different versions of the Ten Commandments on public property.
First, it’s spelled “unnatural.”
Second, I expected this “retort” from you. That is why I said that natural law “does NOT mean “law of nature” in the environmental sense.”
Natural law means, basically, that everything should try to act by its natural purpose. If you see a bulimic, you would say that they are perverting the natural purpose of the digestic system. Same thing with the sexual organs. The penis and vagina have a natural match - perfect for each other - to reproduce. To use the penis for gay or anal sex, or masturbation, is a perversion of the natural purpose of the male genitals. To use the female genitals for masturbation, or lesbian sex, is a perversion of the natural purpose of the vagina. Simple as that.
Next time, try to understand what it is meant when you debate. The natural law has NOTHING to do with shaving, celibacy (which Christ praised, by the way, since it is a sacrifice to give up our inclination; same with fasting).
Okay, I respect your views…but…as humans were are “above” nature to some extent. Nature doesn’t nessirily control us. As Humans, we do many things against nature. That’s our nature, and that’s okay…
Does that include pedophiles, bulimics, mentally unstable psychopaths, rapists, incestuous relationships? Why stop at gays?
The thing is, is that the words mentioned above are sicknesses, diseases, and disorders. Why? Because they’re hurting themselves and others. However homosexuality isn’t hurting anyone and gays aren’t hurting themselves.
As so do we. But we love the sinner, not the sin. When Christ caught the women in adultery, he didn’t say “Keep doing what you’re doing, I love you no matter what.” He said: “Go, and sin no more.”
Okay. respectable comment. Adultery is not the same as homosexual acts. But that’s just me, but I respect your comment.
Please see above.
