[txzman]

"If you are saying the Church should not ordain celibate homosexuals, I entirely disagree. The trouble is that, in our sex-obsessed age, very few homosexuals remain celibate any longer.

Besides the fact that the Bible calls it a sin and and abomination. Many Christians fail to remember that Christ talked long and often about how you think is often a sin before the act is ever committed.

It makes me shudder how these practicing Priests could resolve the hypocrisy of their actions against their professed faith.

[gcruse]

how you think is often a sin before the act is ever committed.

[gcruse]

Ooops. Now the rest of the story.

how you think is often a sin before the act is ever committed.

That's why, as they pass the collection plate around, I think
about putting something in it and smilingly pass it along.

[aristeides]

True that sexual thoughts, including homosexual ones, can, at least in Catholic thought, be sinful. To say that the Bible calls them an "abomination," however, seems to me to be going rather far. I don't think you can find me a passage that does this. I think "abomination" applies only to acts.

In any case, the sexual thoughts that are sins are thoughts that one chooses, and luxuriates in. A feeling of attraction that is not chosen cannot be a sin, in Catholic teaching. And it can be a route to good, by, for example, serving as motivation for dedicated teaching.

[Dinsdale]

Many Christians fail to remember that Christ talked long and often about how you think is often a sin before the act is ever committed.

Old George Carlin bit.

You think about feeling up suzie.
You want to feel up suzie.
You ask her out hoping to feel up suzie.
You feed suzie while trying to look her in the eyes (failing).
You take suzie for a drive to feel her up.
You feel her up.
You like it.

That's a bunch of sins for just one feel.

[Aliska]

This whole mess is going to boomerang on all Christians in general.