"Why Does God Allow Same-Sex Attraction?" What a Priest Said When He Was Asked This Question

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Imagine having free will and still choosing to be a sodomite. I honestly don’t understand them. Same can be said about those that engage in pre-marital sex.
 
Of course. Although I take it you are saying that facetiously.
 
WA_Catholic said:
Imagine having free will and still choosing to be a sodomite. I honestly don’t understand them. Same can be said about those that engage in pre-marital sex.
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Yes, it’s pretty clear that you honestly don’t understand.
 
Does anybody understand? I mean I can’t imagine committing an act that would jeopardize and scandalize another human being’s soul.
 
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Does anybody understand? I mean I can’t imagine committing an act that would jeopardize and scandalize another human being’s soul.
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You do know that heterosexual people engage in “sodomy” also and that they often commit acts that jeopardize their souls and that of the persons they are committing fornication or adultery with?

It’s called biology + a whole lot of emotions and usually + confusion as well.

If you haven’t experienced it in your life, you’re lucky, because it gets a whole lot of us, gay or straight.
 
I meant to include all people, both sodomites and heterosexuals. I get that there is a biological tug towards physical intimacy but once you learn about marriage and the purpose of sexual relations I could never imagine getting intimate with someone who I wasn’t married to.
 
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WA_Catholic said:
Does anybody understand? I mean I can’t imagine committing an act that would jeopardize and scandalize another human being’s soul.
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You’ve never commited an act that would jeopardise your soul? You’ve never been complicent in something that was immoral?
 
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I meant to include all people, both sodomites and heterosexuals. I get that there is a biological tug towards physical intimacy but once you learn about marriage and the purpose of sexual relations I could never imagine getting intimate with someone who I wasn’t married to.
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Really? You can’t imagine committing a sexual sin? Color me skeptical.

Also, insisting on referring to gay people as “sodomites” is extremely juvenile.
 
I have committed acts that were mortally sinful. I just haven’t committed a sin that would jeopardize someone else’s, which sexual intercourse and sodomy would entail.
 
Not with another person, no. I have too much love for my fellow man to commit such an act.

Why is calling a sodomite a sodomite juvenile?
 
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If God wants people to abstain from homosexual acts, this person asks, then why does such an orientation even exist?
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The question is mis-stated.

God wants everyone to abstain from sexual acts outside of marriage, and God ordained marriage to be between a man and a woman.

In other words, God does not have one rule for gay people, and another one for straight people. it is the same rule.

And it would appear that in a broken world (as in, one where all are affected by Original Sin), homosexual attraction appears to be part of that brokenness.

Homosexual attraction can be a terrible burden; so can just about any other attraction which causes us to choose to sin. There is no sin which is not attractive, or no one would sin.
 
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Why is calling a sodomite a sodomite juvenile?
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Because deliberately picking an extremely outdated (and inaccurate: sodomy can be and is practiced by hetereosexuals) term makes it clear that you get a thrill out of offending people. The Church doesn’t describe gay people as “sodomites” and hasn’t in a long time. Making a special effort to use a term that fell out of common usage a long time shows you aren’t motivated by simple description.

And then, of course, you’ll look up in wide-eyed innocence and say “but…but…it’s in the Bible!”
 
Regular_Atheist said:
As you note, the media and the opinion shapers are trying to normalize homosexuality. It is no more complicated than that.
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There aren’t a whole lot of things in the world, that if you scratch the surface enough, either sex, money, or both, won’t bubble up to the surface in fairly short order. Normalizing homosexuality ticks both of these boxes. As I have said elsewhere, gay people have money to spend — very often, their disposable income is considerable — and advertisers are chasing their dollars. There is a very amoral streak to business in the modern secular world, as Dagny Taggart said in the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged (much more digestible than that horribly overwritten novel!), “making money is what it’s all about”. If businesses could make more money by shutting out gay people, many of them would do that. If they can make more money by including gay people, they’ll do that instead. And gay people always have the prerogative of favoring businesses that favor them, and not favoring businesses that don’t favor them. Throw that in the pot of the modern Zeitgeist that “gay is cool”, “gay is glamorous”, “gay is where it’s at”, and you’re going to see the gay experience reflected positively in just about everything. So the modern media and advertising onslaught are both an attempt to normalize homosexuality, and a by-product of homosexuality being normalized in the contemporary secular world. It’s like a regenerative cycle that feeds on itself and grows as it feeds at the same time.
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Uh how can a straight person practice sodomy? That is just insanity. But look, these people are sodomites, they fit the definition. Especially in this age where they are so prideful about their sodomy I have no issue calling them as such. It is disturbing you seem so off put.
 
WA_Catholic said:
Uh how can a straight person practice sodomy? That is just insanity. But look, these people are sodomites, they fit the definition. Especially in this age where they are so prideful about their sodomy I have no issue calling them as such. It is disturbing you seem so off put.
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Uh, a straight couple can engage in anal sex, that’s how. Are you really this sheltered?

People aren’t defined by some sex act they may have engaged in. It’s dehumanizing. You may have “no issue calling them as such”, but it’s a gross attitude and you should knock it off.
 
Uh, a straight couple can engage in anal sex, that’s how. Are you really this sheltered?
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They technically could but why would they? It makes no sense and any straight couple that is doing this probably has major other issues going on. I pray that this does not take place in reality.
People aren’t defined by some sex act they may have engaged in. It’s dehumanizing. You may have “no issue calling them as such”, but it’s a gross attitude and you should knock it off.
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I am not calling someone who did it, knows it is wrong, and sought forgiveness. Such person in my mind is no sodomite. A sodomite is one who is unapologetic about their evil ways and try to enforce it on society. We truly are living in an age that is equivalent to Sodom and Gomorrah. . . .
 
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But you do see why sodomy makes no sense then with heterosexuals right?
 
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