Posted on 08/05/2017 7:00:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
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. |
Meth addiction is a gift from god.
Pedophilia is a gift from god.
Serial killer is a gift from god.
How is it the devil has been so successful? And then this bishop perpetuates the confusion.
Male sperm addiction among those who seek no treatment = homosexuality.
So he has thrown out Romans Chapter 1. Reprobate mind?
Actually, the attraction to same sex persons is not usually chosen, but imposed by abuse, or bad parenting or many other stimuli in the world.
What is a choice is whether you act on the attraction. If you choose to act,that is sin.
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we all have burdens...some have terrible burdens....
terrible crosses to bear....
and let's not even think about biology....the survival of the fittest means THOSE WHO CAN PRODUCE OFFSPRING....the sexual urge is nothing more than a means to an end for a species to continue...
so I love my relatives that proclaim to be homosexual....both sides of our families....
but I know that they are more apt to have disease, suicidal thoughts and actions, domestic violence in their lives, drug abuse and alcohol abuse...
so am I suppose to be happy about their choices?.....
Probably another reason why Al Gore says he could join the Catholic Church headed by Pope Francis....along with Francis agreeing with Algore on human created glowbull warming.
How I long for Pope Benedict XVI.
>How long has the Bishop been gay, I wonder?
Sin is never a gift from God.<
Ah, the gift of faggotry
Is a bad leg or blindness also a “gift of God”? I recall Jesus working miracles to cure the ill and lame.
And for the record there has been at least one lesbian couple who conspired to conceive a child that was deaf (by deliberate choice of theirs).
Let’s legitimize them all and then we’ll have no need for preachers. They are talking themselves out of a job imo.
And alcoholism
People like this piece of crap make me not want to go to church on Sundays.
Now when I have a hangover, I just pass.
Probably use it as much as those who think ALL homosexuals are that way by choice and that folks who have remarried must be denied communion with God.....
“Adultery, if it is not a choice and not a disease, it is a gift given by God.”
“Stealing, if it is not a choice and not a disease, it is a gift given by God.”
“Murder, if it is not a choice and not a disease, it is a gift given by God.”
None of those make any more sense. God gives us unhealthy temptations, not always the same temptations, but we all have one or more weaknesses. We have a choice whether we give in to those desires or not. I choose to the best of my limited ability to follow God’s Word over my urges.
Does the Catholic Church use the Bible anymore
Does the Catholic Church use the Bible anymore
There are bad humans in every church. If you leave because of this you’ll have to do as the protestants and start your own! That solution hasn’t worked out so well, either.
Pope Francis started this with “Who am I to judge”. He knew what he had started when he said it. It was deliberate!
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