Posted on 07/12/2015 10:36:21 AM PDT by NYer
Everything old is new again, ping!
No, the examples given are not of “gay marriage”. They are making fun of men who play the bride. No question that pederasty and homosexual behavior were common in Rome and Greece, actual same-sex marriage was not done. Probably not even considered except in jest.
It is articles like this that make me celebrate my ex-Catholicism and turning directly to the Word of God.
How so?
Why? As the article states, it was the early Catholic Church that protected and promoted natural, monogamous marriage in the corrupt Roman Empire.
Don't let the left define the conversation. Call it what it is. Homosexual if you're being polite, Sodomite if you're not.
I haven’t made it all the way through City of God, but so far Sodomy has not been a major factor cited by Augustine as cause of Rome’s decline.
So Nero was homosexual? No wonder why he hated Christians so much.
Abortion - Nothing New Under the Sun
Gay marriage had its detractors, but it was done. Certainly homosexual sex was a popular pursuit by the elite of the day.
The Catholic church and, notably, its current Pope, have been remarkably quiet on the issue of homosexual “marriage” the last couple of years.
Well, child sacrifices, mass murders, evil tyrannies are not new either. That does not mean we should not fight against them with all our might.
The great Bishop of Hippo writes: “Sins against nature, therefore, like the sin of Sodom, are abominable and deserve punishment whenever and wherever they are committed. If all nations committed them, all alike would be held guilty of the same charge in God’s law, for our Maker did not prescribe that we should use each other in this way. In fact, the relationship that we ought to have with God is itself violated when our nature, of which He is Author, is desecrated by perverted lust.”
Further on he reiterates: “Your punishments are for sins which men commit against themselves, because, although they sin against You, they do wrong in their own souls and their malice is self-betrayed. They corrupt and pervert their own nature, which You made and for which You shaped the rules, either by making wrong use of the things which You allow, or by becoming inflamed with passion to make unnatural use of things which You do not allow” (Rom. 1:26). (St. Augustine, Confessions, Book III, chap. 8)
Your link is taking me to where I am. Am I missing something?
"There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law. Homosexual acts “close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved”."
Seems pretty cut-and-dried to me.
Let me help you along with the last part of your comment: Romans 1:26-28
Quite honestly, I don’t understand your point. Romans 1:26-28 is completely adequate by itself without someone trying to tell me that this behavior really isn’t new so I should ... what?
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