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To: sinkspur

Yes, that, too. However, homosexuality represents "disordered thinking" and it seems that is easiluy and often proven out by the mere fact that those who embrace homosexuality continue to affiliate as and with homosexuality in the Priesthood, while those who are heterosexual do not.

The KEY ISSUE HERE is CHASTITY. Celibacy AND CHASTITY. Chastity is disproven time and time again when some in the Priesthood defend their identity as homosexuals. They are remaining in and of the sin itself, which defies their vows yet again.

Heterosexuality is not parallel to or with homosexuality. Homosexuality is deemed disordered thinking in our contemporary church (and among and by much of our contemporary society), while heterosexuality is the state of man and woman in relationship to the family and reproduction.

The cultural state, the concept of modernism and cultural acceptance is being forced into areas of religious ideology and in that case, I'd suggest you or those who are attempting this insistence argue with the Holy Bible, because scripture is clear about God's revulsion and absolute rejection of homosexuality. Culturally, it's acceptable, but in a Christian and Judeo-Christian morality, it is not.


41 posted on 10/17/2005 4:53:43 PM PDT by BIRDS
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To: BIRDS

Accept the argument that celibacy is not normal or possible and I think you are just a hair's breadth from saying that monogamy is unnatural. Part of Christ's teachings is that we have control over our "natural" selves and that we do not have to be slaves to our baser impulses.


44 posted on 10/17/2005 5:01:48 PM PDT by Burkean
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To: BIRDS
Chastity is disproven time and time again when some in the Priesthood defend their identity as homosexuals. They are remaining in and of the sin itself, which defies their vows yet again.

If they are not engaging in homosexual acts, they are not guilty of sin, nor remaining in sin.

To be homosexual may be disordered, but it is not sinful.

45 posted on 10/17/2005 5:25:58 PM PDT by sinkspur (If you're not willing to give Harriett Miers a hearing, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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