[sinkspur]

But how will that happen if we keep telling them that their sexual disorientation is just an alternate healthy lifestyle?

Nobody I know is telling homosexuals that their lifestyle is a healthy alternative.

Read the passage in Romans. It is very harsh and says just what I told you it does. Read it.

I'm aware of it. Read the Catholic Catechism. It encourages compassion for the PERSON, while not compromising with the ACT.

[Notwithstanding]

Sink,

I have met too many priests who are "gay" - not merely homosexual. (Note the distinction in post 14 above).

The "Dignity" crowd is not about hating their same-sex attraction. They are about embracing their same-sex attraction and celebrating it with "Pride".

Any such "dignity"-type priests/nuns or catechists/theologians/decision-makers/spokemen/representatives of the Church need to be tossed - now.

Church teaching is clear and they are not following - nor do they have any intent to do so. They do not consider their same-sex attraction disordered nor do they wish they were straight. (Whereas an alcoholic wishes he were rid of his disorder).

[Thorondir]

American Catholic Catechism is wrong in part, and the Pope has ordered the American Bishops repeatedly to change it to comply with Catholic teaching. But they simply break their vows of obedience and disobey him. And the whole liberal establishment is telling the sodomites that their alternative deathstyle is normal and healthy. It is being pushed on children in public schools and in the entertainment media. Where have you been?

[BlackElk]

There is a distinction between "compassion for the person" and putting that intrinsically disordered person in a position wherein he has access to youth of his own sex in what amounts to "the near occasion of sin" as we call it. You are perfectly free to be compassionate but not at the expense of the innocence of children. Something about millstones. Furthermore, it is not compassionate to the homosexual to place him in the near occasion of sin. And it is downright ludicrous and scandalous to set up separate castes within the priesthood of those trusted to be near young men and those who are not.