Offenses against chastity
2351 Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
Chastity and homosexuality
2357 Homosexual-ity refers to relations (period) ( not homosexual tendencies) 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. (
not SSM, not civil unions, not parties, not TV shows, not anything that would show approval of their homosexuality)
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. (
Acceptance of them, not homosexuality, as it states above can never be approved of, under any circumstance)
Every sign of
unjust ( d
oesn’t say there are not some just reasons to discriminate, as in SSM) 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.
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(
this means that they should be around people who support chastity, not promoting or supporting homosexuality, a sinful action), by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
These are the teachings of the Catholic Church, not everything we have to understand, but everything you have to believe. Believe it all or none of it. No Cafeteria Catholics, other wise you would be protestants and your welcome to leave and to join one of those Church’s, that’s your free will, God doesn’t force his love on anyone, but you will never change the Catholic Church to suit to your fancy. We are 2000 years old and still standing and we preach in and out of season. Jesus said people hated me first, so they will hate us too that stand up for the truth. Then we will bring glory to God.
To those who promote or support born that way theory
It’s doesn’t make a bit of difference if anyone was born that way. Predisposition to sin we all have. Some worse than others. It is not an excuse to sin. We don’t act on our impulses that would bring us to any sexual sin.
Then we would be like an animal with no intelligence to not know right from wrong.
** We don’t go along to get along and go with the flow. Flow of what?**
You want people to be damned or in heaven. How uncharitable would it be not to care about someone’s salvation to lie to them so as not to hurt their feelings. Feelings that could cause them to follow the path to hell? False compassion is not true love. Love in truth, not in lies.
GB
stop smoking:thumbsup:
