RE: Anti gay-marriage atheist??
August 31, 2015 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 11:42 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(August 31, 2015 at 11:12 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: I wonder if that means the Catholic church officially thinks homosexuals are deviants? I guess some gay people might be okay with that much acceptance but I know I wouldn't. I guess the church must think their sexual nature is a sin. The church can't reasonably hold that homosexuality is unnatural since it is so common among mammals.
No, it just means gays are no different from the rest of us. We all have temptations, we all do things that are immoral sometimes. This applies to everyone everywhere.
The actual feelings of attraction towards the same sex are not sinful because they are not freely chosen. Whether they stemmed from genetics, from environmental factors, or from a little bit of both depending on the person, the important part is to remember that it is not voluntary. So being gay, in and of itself, is not immoral because it is not chosen.
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-walsh
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