Why is same-sex marriage unnatural?

[gabriellenoelle]

In this question answered by an apologist
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=507921

I believe that same sex marriage is unnatural as well, however in the answer the person quotes Fr. Hardon saying “everyone is subject to [natural law] from birth (natio), because it contains only those duties which are derivable from human nature itself”

So, I don’t understand, if natural law is derived from human nature, how is one’s natural attraction to the same gender (ie their natural nature is to be attracted to the same sex) not applicable to natural law?
I can see why murder goes against natural law because no one has a natural desire to murder people.
However, thousands are born with a natural desire to be attracted to the same sex, so how is that against natural law?

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

We don’t have individual, subjective natural laws. Natural law is objective and applies to all people. Our awareness of it derives from right reason and not from feelings. There are some people who choose to take pleasure in incest. This doesn’t mean that such activity comes from the natural law. It’s quite the opposite. The taboo of incest comes from natural law. Because some people feel an attraction doesn’t make it natural. The vast majority of humans are repulsed by incest because it threatens the integrity of the family which is the central cell of human social life. The vast majority of humans are repulsed by same sex attraction and so called same sex marriage for the same reason. Most people with same sex attraction are actually repulsed by it as well—despite the attraction they feel for members of their same sex.

I realize that these statements can enrage many people because they don’t want them to be true. But this doesn’t make them untrue. It is only when we recognize the hunger for meaning lying at the core of our being that we open ourselves to the Creator and recognize that we are not enough for ourselves and that ultimately we cannot be happy by following only that which gives immediate pleasure.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.