(August 31, 2015 at 2:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: Can't they just have sex then go to confessional? Then it's all better.
Who has been harmed in that scenario?
We do expect some people not to act on certain urges they have, when those urges result in the harm of others, such as paedophiles. This is a false equivocation with homosexuality, which harms no one.
Bingo!
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