Maybe you aren't a practicing Catholic or even a Catholic.
You can go to ANY Catholic site and ask that question. But that would only be if you really wanted to know the answer.
We cannot monitor EVERY SINGLE thought that comes into our head. When the boobtoob is on ALL KINDS of images emerge. Do YOU manage to control EVERY SINGLE thought that pops into your head?
If a driver annoys you and you think, for a moment, that the jerk deserves to get a flat tire have you committed a sin?
That would be absurd. NO one on this earth has that kind of self control.
” You obviously haven’t been paying attention to what the Catholic Church, via their authority, has said about homosexuality. “
And what “authority” is that?
The very word reminds me of the pharisees - and what Jesus had to say about them.
I’m a recovered Catholic - finally got old enough to realize they praised way too much in the earthly realm and claimed that these mortal, faulted men were critical to everyone else’s salvation....being excommunicated from our parish for not raising the amount in the envelopes helped...along with watching the priest, who was right next door to us, wobble around drunk.
Pretty clothes and glitzy pomp doesn’t salvation make...