Catechism of the Catholic Church
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They 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. |
The problem I invariably have with such statements is the explicit approbation of the Nineteenth Century ersatz term, homosexuality.
There is no such thing - and that word is not used in the Bible; what is used is not a legitimizing name but the functional, descriptive action of a man lying with a man as a man would lie with a woman. A man lying with a woman is the real thing; a man lying with another man is a pretense - and hence a perversion of nature.
There is no such thing as a functional form of human sexuality between two members of the same sex. Sexuality exists because of its inherent procreative function.
What exists between two such is eroticism, not sexuality.
For this reason, I absolutely refuse to use the validating terms of gay or homosexual: They are homoerotics.
When a man can impregnate a man without any artificial engineering, or a woman can impregnate a woman without any artificial engineering, then I will reconsider my position.
How can a priest, God’s servant on Earth, participate in an activity expressly forbidden by God’s Word? Yes, we all have sinned, but that sin requires effort and planning beyond any “normal” transgressions.