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--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] more Ratso on homosex
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 8:18 PM
> <http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html>
>
> There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual
> unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous
> to God's plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy,
> while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.
> Homosexual acts “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”.(4)
>
> Sacred Scripture condemns homosexual acts “as a serious
> depravity... (cf. Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10). This
> judgment of Scripture does not of course permit us to
> conclude that all those who suffer from this anomaly are
> personally responsible for it, but it does attest to the
> fact that homosexual acts are intrinsically
> disordered”.(5) This same moral judgment is found in many
> Christian writers of the first centuries(6) and is
> unanimously accepted by Catholic Tradition.
>
> Nonetheless, according to the teaching of the Church, men
> and women with homosexual tendencies “must be accepted
> with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of
> unjust discrimination in their regard should be
> avoided”.(7) They are called, like other Christians, to
> live the virtue of chastity.(8) The homosexual inclination
> is however “objectively disordered”(9) and homosexual
> practices are “sins gravely contrary to chastity”.(10)
>
>
>
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