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To: marshmallow

This is a question for the men here: you either schwing for it or you dont? Correct or incorrect?

No way “therapy” is changing that.....


12 posted on 07/09/2019 7:15:46 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative
This is a question for the men here: you either schwing for it or you dont? Correct or incorrect?

No way “therapy” is changing that...

To put things in context as it relates specifically to the subject of the article, one must understand Catholic teaching on the topic and the actual 'science' involved. In a nutshell, Catholic teaching is that homosexual tendencies, cause unknown, are intrinsically disordered and engaging in homosexual activity should be avoided. The 'science' involved regarding 'therapy' has everything to do with behavioral psychology.

As well, Catholic teaching states that individuals have free will and just because they may be inclined or predisposed to engage in sin, cause unknown, does not mean they have no choice but to do so. In other words; sinful thoughts are beyond our control; however, sinful activity must be avoided, sin must not be engaged in and if one repeatedly engages in sinful activity it ill further entrench one in the activity --the activity will become habitual and normalized.

Finally, those that seek to remove themselves from and avoid sinful activity should be helped by the Church.

In a nutshell, an apt analogy might be comparing habitual sin to alcoholism. One may always feel predisposed to consume alcohol; however, this does not mean one has to actually consume alcohol and that there is support and there are coping strategies based upon behavioral psychology that can be learned by those seeking to do so.

16 posted on 07/10/2019 2:48:43 PM PDT by DBeers (The concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.)
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