Would you criminalize homosexual act if you had the chance?

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And (in all seriousness) what would be wrong with that? I’d love to live in a country like that. Heck because Christianity is more tolerant, it might work better than a muslim theocracy
Why makes you think Christianity is inherently more tolerant, though? I mean, people in the past all cross Christian nations were put to death purely on religious grounds. The only reason Christianity appears to be more tolerant is that the actual attitudes of Christians themselves have changed. There’s no reason it couldn’t adopt the style of a modern Islamic theocracy. I’d also say that a nation such as that is much less likely to respect freedom of speech, freedom of thought and religious freedom.

Anyway, to answer the question, I suppose a case could be made for making homosexuality illegal, but it seems cruel, especially seeing as there would also have to be massive restrictions on other sexual acts to avoid hypocrisy. It wouldn’t stop homosexuality from happening, either, and would be very hard to enforce. If people are concerned about potential health risks, maybe we should just stick big warning labels over homosexuals like we do for cigarettes, or something. I don’t think there’s that much reason to make it illegal, though, and if it gives some people their jollies, I have no reason to take it away from them.

I’m also aware that this was most likely aimed at Catholics, but I’m a rebel and I do what I want when I want.
 
The AIDS data skewing that way in the West doesn’t hold up in Africa.
Skewed in favor of whose agenda? The conservatives? That wouldn’t make sense considering the fact that the data is by the CDC, which is a liberal source. If you notice, the CDC website gives the statistical numbers (the facts) and then tries to soften it with left-leaning political correctness. The CDC data which says that the “gay” community is and has always been most affected by the AIDS epidemic is also supported by the current liberal administration. The AIDS awareness campaign itself is one that was started by the “gay” community. One of the primary ways that AIDS was spread from the homosexual community to the heterosexual community was because of bisexual men.
 
English is not my native language, you might find some errors and I apologize for that.

I need clear answer, if you had the chance would you make homosexual acts illegal like in some countries, would you make someone go to jail or might even get killed if he/she had homosexual sex?
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We are on a catholic forum what means that each catholic lay person:**

Has to purify its own thoughts, who can be indirectly or directly touched by the heresies and / or by the ideologies concerning the human nature with all the corollaries, and concerning the functions and the roles of the State with all corollaries (the civil law of State, the penal law of State, or both of them).

Thus, each catholic lay person has to refuse these heresies ---- the puritanism, the neo-puritanism, the fideism, the quietism, the jansenism, the neo-jansenism, the catharism, the neo-catharism, the moralism, the judgmentalism, the externalism, the rigorism, the anti-personalism, the anti-phenomenologism, the pharisianism or pharisaism, the evangelical fundamentalisms, the mormonism, the victorianism, the neo-victorianism, all the protestantisms…etc ----
and
these ideologies ---- the communism of State, the socialism of State, the nazism of State, the fascism of State, the totalitarism of State, the tyranism of State, the clanism of State…etc ----

in order to identify in link with the global teaching of the catholic church:

*what should stay in the sphere of morality and not enter of the other spheres;

what should enter and stay, only, in the sphere of the civil law, and not enter of the penal sphere;

what should enter in the sphere of the penal law and also enter in the civil spheres (both for public sanctions --jail or money for the State – and money for the victims --“penal victim and civil victim” --);*

For doing this job, each one needs to purify its own soul with all corollaries, and to do a analysis of the catholic doctrine** in the details and with all the subtleties, for discerning: the fact of identifying the good spheres, in the catholic sense.**

**The chariarization of State, even “in the christian way”, is morally wrong, socially unfair, and legally dangerous for the human nature because the nature of catholicism is very different. Otherwise, it is not a catholic way. The theory of the tolerance of law of state concerning the private sins is the rule. **

My understanding of the catholic social doctrine about homosexuality:

The State has no power to redefine the marriage (a natural institution and a natural contract): no right, no authority and no power of changing the natural acception of what is the true marriage wanted by God (natural moral law in the classical acception in all societies, the universality of marriage by the universal anthropology – man and woman --);
Thus, the civil law of State does not have to recognize the “marriage” for the same sex persons (a pseudo-marriage, a pseudo couple, a false couple, a pair of sodomites, a pair of lesbians, yes the word couple is wrong, only the word “pair” is the good one, in the real and objective philosophy.);

The promotion of homosexuality in school (the primary school, the secondary school, the Grammar school) should be banned by the civil law of State; The homo-education and the homosexuality do not have to be normalized and banalized by the public school and by the governement;

The promotion of homosexuality at the College (at the University) should be avoided, should not be promoted as a normality;

The objection of conscience about that has to be garanteed by the laws of State: the refusal for the catholic structures to be an actor of the adoption in favor of the pair of the same sex persons, the refusal of natural and religious catholic wedding for those pairs, the acceptance of some “discriminations” in link with the sexual orientation, the wrong moral personal behaviors…etc;

The penal laws of State do not have to criminalize the homosexual acts of the same sex persons, who are consenting adults, in their bedroom, at home, in private place. It is not the business of State of visiting the sodomical beds ;
 
Hahaha! Yeah, send them to jail, that’d cut back on the sodomy. This thread is the funniest damn thing I’ve seen in weeks.
You know…that is a good point. I forgot that sodomy happens more in prisons than in the general population. My point about jail time, though, was that in some countries, sodomy is punishable by death, and I think that is wrong.
 
Skewed in favor of whose agenda? The conservatives? That wouldn’t make sense considering the fact that the data is by the CDC, which is a liberal source. If you notice, the CDC website gives the statistical numbers and then tries to soften it with politically correct spin to try not to offend the “gay” agenda. The CDC data which says that the “gay” community is most affected by the AIDS epidemic is also supported by the current liberal administration. The AIDS awareness campaign itself is one that was started by the “gay” community. One of the primary ways that AIDS was spread from the homosexual community to the heterosexual community was because of bisexual men.
The global situation has heterosexuals being the primary spreaders and victims. Additionally HIV would have crossed over into the American heterosexual population by soldiers (a soldier going in to a brothel in a foreign country has been known to happen from time to time) and via immigrants.
 
You know…that is a good point. I forgot that sodomy happens more in prisons than in the general population. My point about jail time, though, was that in some countries, sodomy is punishable by death, and I think that is wrong.
How about public flogging then? Or torture?
 
The global situation has heterosexuals being the primary spreaders and victims. Additionally HIV would have crossed over into the American heterosexual population by soldiers (a soldier going in to a brothel in a foreign country has been known to happen from time to time) and via immigrants.
One of the primary ways AIDS spread to the heterosexual community was by way of bisexual men. The AIDS awareness campaign was started in the “gay” community because it was (and still is) hitting them the hardest. The numbers of heterosexuals getting it might be higher if looking strictly at numbers because only about 2% of the population is homosexual while the rest of the population is heterosexual. But if you look at the percentages within each respective group you will see why “gays” are the ones most worried about this.
 
How about public flogging then? Or torture?
The public flogging as a penal punishment is morally wrong, it is immoral. The public toture as a penal punishment is morally wrong, it is immoral.

The flogging by state as a mean for getting information is, by principle, morally wrong. The toture from state as a mean for getting information is, by principle, morally wrong, it is immoral.
 
The public flogging as a penal punishment is morally wrong, it is immoral. The public toture as a penal punishment is morally wrong, it is immoral.

The flogging by state as a mean for getting information is, by principle, morally wrong. The toture from state as a mean for getting information is, by principle, morally wrong, it is immoral.
Hmm… yeah, maybe we better just let them do whatever they want and keep the law out of consenting adults’ bedrooms after all.
 
How about public flogging then? Or torture?
Of course I would be opposed to those punishments as well. I never even thought about those, nor am I aware of their use today. Laws teach us about what is good/bad for a society.
 
It shouldn’t be considered a crime because it’s a psychological disorder like being depressed or suicidal. And, unlike abortion, there isn’t someone innocent that is being killed.
 
Would anyone change their answer due to the fact that male homosexuality is the #1 driving force (by far) for the spread of HIV-AIDs in the western world.

Its all very well to congratulate ourselves about how tolerant we are of other people choices, but ultimately what good will it do us as our nations become ever more burdened by incurable disease?

Gay male communities in places now live with worse HIV rates than even the worst hit African nations.

I wouldnt want homsoexuality to be illegal purely to give gay people a hard time, (they get a hard enough time), but I think there is an argument to protect individuals, protect overall public health and to stop minority groups from becoming a disproportionate drain on social resources.

Mmm, I dont think illegal is the answer - maybe decriminalised but with controls regarding its promotion, like we used to have.
 
I believe homosexual acts are sinful but some of the proposals on here are just wacky. You’re not going to get homosexual acts criminalized again because such criminalization is unconstitutional (Lawrence). Honestly we’re not going to go back fifty years to the way things were before the sexual revolution. That’s just crazy talk.

And if you’re a limited government person (like so many CAF users are) you just can’t have free markets, limited government, yet breaking down peoples’ doors and hauling them off to prison for private consensual behavior.
 
Skewed in favor of whose agenda? The conservatives? That wouldn’t make sense considering the fact that the data is by the CDC, which is a liberal source. If you notice, the CDC website gives the statistical numbers (the facts) and then tries to soften it with left-leaning political correctness. The CDC data which says that the “gay” community is and has always been most affected by the AIDS epidemic is also supported by the current liberal administration. The AIDS awareness campaign itself is one that was started by the “gay” community. One of the primary ways that AIDS was spread from the homosexual community to the heterosexual community was because of bisexual men.
That’s horrible. AIDS is not a “gay disease.” That’s offensive. Heterosexuals in Africa were getting AIDS long before gay men were. Most HIV/AIDS cases in Africa are almost all heterosexual, and it’s been that way since the virus mutated.
 
I believe homosexual acts are sinful but some of the proposals on here are just wacky.
This thread definitely brought out a special kind of ugly here. I’m thinking about leaving this forum, tbh.
 
I believe homosexual acts are sinful but some of the proposals on here are just wacky.
This thread definitely brought out a special kinda ugly here. It was funny to read cuz some of the comments here are so utterly absurd, but now that the fun’s over I’m thinking this forum might not be a healthy place for me.
 
If this question was asked just a few decades ago, everybody would say that it ought to be illegal. Just shows you how fast social attitudes and beliefs have changed within our society.
Totally! Sort of like how nowadays we let black people sit anywhere on the bus?! :rolleyes:
 
IIRC there were people who actually had opposed the inclusion of homosexuality from the beginning because there wasn’t sufficient evidence for it being a mental illness
Is pedophilia an illness or an orientation? How can you tell?
 
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