Question about Homosexuality

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If a homosexual person lives a life of chastity and does not engage in homosexual acts, and the person dies in a state of grace, is there any reason why that person could not go to Heaven?
 
Just being born LGBTQ does not mean that if you died at age three you would go to hell. The Church has never implicated that gay people will automatically go to hell.:eek:
 
Christbearer03 said:
If a homosexual person lives a life of chastity and does not engage in homosexual acts, and the person dies in a state of grace, is there any reason why that person could not go to Heaven?
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Why would you think that they wouldn’t?!

It scares me to death that there are people out there who actually believe that just having an attraction to the same sex is an evil, hell-worthy trespass.

God help us.
 
Christbearer03 said:
If a homosexual person lives a life of chastity and does not engage in homosexual acts, and the person dies in a state of grace, is there any reason why that person could not go to Heaven?
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Homosexuals are called upon to be saints like everyone else is. There’s no reason why a homosexual cannot go to Heaven after having lived a chaste life and being in a state of grace.
 
Homosexual attraction is not a sin. The sin is in having sex outside of the sacrament of marriage, the same as it’s a sin to have pre-marital heterosexual sex, or extra-marital heterosexual sex. Sex is supposed to happen between a man and a woman married to one another.
 
Denise1957 said:
Homosexuals are called upon to be saints like everyone else is. There’s no reason why a homosexual cannot go to Heaven after having lived a chaste life and being in a state of grace.
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Having an attraction isn’t a sin. it is the decision to engage in that attraction that is sinful.
 
This is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
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2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
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2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
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Oneofthewomen said:
Why would you think that they wouldn’t?!

It scares me to death that there are people out there who actually believe that just having an attraction to the same sex is an evil, hell-worthy trespass.

God help us.
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Indeed. People who make such arguments make the task of spreading the Gospel that much more difficult. Indeed, there is no small amount of people who leave the Church when a family member “comes out” based on this misunderstanding that the Church teaches the attraction itself means a person is going to hell. That is not and never has been what the Church teaches.
 
Christbearer03 said:
If a homosexual person lives a life of chastity and does not engage in homosexual acts, and the person dies in a state of grace, is there any reason why that person could not go to Heaven?
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I agree with what the others posters have said. I’ve found this gay (Catholic) YouTuber (youtube.com/user/ChurchTriumphant) does a good job of explaining the Church’s teaching on being gay/going to heaven.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Indeed. People who make such arguments make the task of spreading the Gospel that much more difficult. Indeed, there is no small amount of people who leave the Church when a family member “comes out” based on this misunderstanding that the Church teaches the attraction itself means a person is going to hell. That is not and never has been what the Church teaches.
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Well stated.
Those who believe otherwise, should speak to their priest about it for clarification.
 
Christbearer03 said:
If a homosexual person lives a life of chastity and does not engage in homosexual acts, and the person dies in a state of grace, is there any reason why that person could not go to Heaven?
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Of course not. Why on earth would there be?
 
kozlosap said:
Just being born LGBTQ does not mean that if you died at age three you would go to hell. The Church has never implicated that gay people will automatically go to hell.:eek:
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Being born a certain way has not been proven but it sure keeps being repeated to the point where many believe it.
 
I think the question has been answered.
The OP thinks the Church is persecuting gays,
This is not the truth.
Can we move on?
 
pianistclare said:
I think the question has been answered.
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Can we move on?
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No one’s stopping you. There’s that little “unsubscribe” option.

I’m curious to see what the OP has to say- I’d like to know how they got that impression and if they feel better now that pretty much everyone has replied with the same response.
 
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