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To: annalex; D-fendr
You are spinning the word "lust".

Perhaps. However I don't excuse homosexuality as a preference.

6,999 posted on 01/19/2007 5:10:01 PM PST by HarleyD ("...even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near Himself." Num 16:5)
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To: HarleyD

7000 posts.


7,000 posted on 01/19/2007 5:13:59 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: HarleyD; D-fendr
I don't excuse homosexuality as a preference.

Now you use another weasel word, "excuse". The Church teaches that homosexuality as a preference (inclination we prefer to call it) is an objectively disordered condition. We do not go into wheather it is innate or acquired, but it is a disorder. It becomes sin when it turns into lust, and graver sin when lust is acted out, but in itself it is merely a disorder which gives an occasion of sin, like many others. For example, someone might be inclined to anger, and that inclination might lead to various sins of the heart or worse, sins of the act.

7,079 posted on 01/20/2007 1:30:01 PM PST by annalex
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