Is beg gay a s? Is a s to be gay? Is sful to have same-sex-attractns?
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IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
Sce the homosexual orientatn is trsilly evil, any and all acts, whether sexual or not, by which a human person knowgly choos to move toward, operate wh, rerce, or act upon, a homosexual orientatn is self a s, eher venial or mortal. The s of homosexual sex is a more ser s than that of heterosexual sex outsi of marriage, bee the former act is both a sexual act outsi of marriage and a sexual act between persons of the same genr. Although the verse only mentns mal, is certa that female homosexual acts are also nmned bee female homosexualy has the same ntradictns of the moral orr as male homosexualy.
Even though this list is not a prehensive list of the evils found among human persons, still clus the term 'the effemate' (moll), which refers, not to homosexual acts themselv, but to the homosexual orientatn. Therefore, is a hery to believe that the homosexual orientatn self is good, or that is approved or blsed by God, for the homosexual orientatn is herently directed toward acts that are trsilly evil and always gravely immoral.
Now is te that the homosexual orientatn, if is not willed, is not self a s, but is neverthels heretil to claim that is not a severe moral disorr or that is not ftgly referred to as a kd of evil. But the homosexual orientatn is herently directed toward an trsic moral evil which is always a ser s agast God, and therefore is not at all equivalent to the natural clatn of men and women toward each other, which is signed by God and which is not necsarily sful. This claim is heretil bee ni the trsic moral disorr of the homosexual orientatn and bee ni that the homosexual orientatn is a rult of the ss of dividuals and of society.
IS BEG GAY A S?
Therefore, is ntrary to the Catholic fah to claim that the homosexual orientatn is merely a rult of nature or geics or 'normal' human psychologil velopment, as if s were no way volved as part of the e of somethg which is trsilly immoral. Sce even the homosexual orientatn self is trsilly evil, is ntrary to the Catholic fah to claim that is a legimate liftyle choice or a legimate part of a healthy society. The claim that persons wh a homosexual orientatn have a rightful place the Church as ordaed persons, as relig, or to posns of thory, teachg, or learship the parish, the dce, or the Church general.
Send, this claim implicly asserts the heretil view that that the homosexual orientatn is not harmful to human persons, is not self a moral evil, and that the example of such an orientatn is not harmful to the fahful. Therefore, the Church n and should ny all homosexuals (even those claimg to be chaste) all posns of thory, learship, and teachg wh the Church, cludg the rol of an, prit, and Bishop.
However, datg persons of the same genr, or engagg a datg-type same sex relatnship, even whout sexual acts, is sful bee promot and operat wh the homosexual orientatn, which is self trsilly evil. It would be unwise for a Christian who has a homosexual orientatn to socialize, any extensive or equent manner, wh a group of homosexuals, even if that group has a Christian outlook.