[pipecorp]

If the sin of homosexuality is to be ignored, why not all other sins as well? Let rapists, muderers, child abusers, thieves, liars, arsonist and animal abusers all be ordained.

If you don't believe the religion, don't subscribe to it.

[The_Reader_David]

You have ceded too much territory to the homosexualists by accepting their confounding of the temptation ('orientation') with the sin ('practice').

The problem lies with the ordination of those who call evil 'good' and good 'evil', or who yield to grevious temptations, not with the ordination of those subject to any particular besetting temptation.

I have little doubt that for centuries, the Latin church (and for that matter the Orthodox church) has ordained men who suffer from temptations to all manner of sins from theft to sodomy, from wrath (which Our Lord equated with murder) to fornication. The problem besetting the Latin church arose when the gate-keeping at the seminaries, in terms of judging the stability of candidates for ordination, was passed to secular psychologists from those with traditional moral and religious sensibilities (who had typically discerned well which men were fitted for celibacy).

[gidget7]

If a homosexual leaves the lifestyle, is celibate, he is not homosexual. To admit he is, he is not celibate. Once he leaves the lifestyle, or if he never acted on it, then why is he still considering himself gay???

This whole article is a plea to allow the activist gays anther source of indoctrination, and should be ignored! Most especially by all Bishops!

My guess is we will see more of this, as they hope to infiltrate the election of the new Pope, and influence it. Homosexuality is an abomination. The answer to this article.......NO

[Polybius]

If the sin of homosexuality is to be ignored, why not all other sins as well? Let rapists, muderers, child abusers, thieves, liars, arsonist and animal abusers all be ordained. If you don't believe the religion, don't subscribe to it.

The reason that the Church has not banned homosexual ordination is that priests have a vow of celibacy.

The "sin" is not the temptation to commit homosexual acts but the actual committing of a homosexual act.

So, the question becomes, "If a man believes that he is a homosexual and has homosexual urges but never gives into the temptation to commit a homosexual act, has he sinned?"

[maine-iac7]

If you don't believe the religion, don't subscribe to it

well said

and don't try to become a leader of His flock