BEASTIALITY

[Catholic_Lady]

My faith teaches us about Natural Law, which is an inherent, basic sense of right from wrong that all people have (unless they are crazy or something). So you are correct in your paragraph above in regards to what I believe. 

So yes, we all know that doing anything sexual with animals is wrong even if it doesn't hurt them in any way. It doesn't take a religious person to know this, just as it doesn't take a religious person to know that murder, stealing, cheating, lying, etc, are wrong. My faith doesn't teach me bestiality is wrong, because I already know it is wrong. But it provides me with a deeper understanding of why this is wrong.

So my question on this thread was for someone who doesn't have that same religious based understanding of why this is wrong, to share their reasons for why they think it's wrong.

Why is it wrong, according to your faith?

Because of sexual morality. 

The short answer is we believe sex is meant to be an act of self giving love between a man and a woman who have vowed to be together for life. The farther away you take sex outside of this context, the more distorted and wrong it becomes. So while I still think it's wrong to have sex with your significant other before you're married, it's even more wrong to have a one night stand with someone you don't really care about, and even more wrong than that is to have it with someone you just paid to do it with. 

And on an entirely other level, it's wrong to do it with an animal because it's not even with a person. That's about as far away as you can get from taking sex outside its intended context, and so it's perverse and sick, and we all know that in our guts. 

And of course, if it brings any sort of physical or emotional harm to the animals, it's wrong because of that too. But even if it doesn't harm the animal, it's still wrong because of sexual morality. That's how we see it anyway.