[central_va]

I'm fairly sure there are lifelong-celibate gays who have passed safely through this veil of tears and are now rejoicing with the Blessed before the throne of God.

How about life long celibate pedophiles? Are they rejoicing too?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Both pedophilia and homosexuality are intrinsically disordered. They are not, however, a personal sin unless consented to in thought, word or deed.

Temptation afflicts everybody. For instance, a married man's secret attraction to a random woman. However, if it is not a deliberate fantasy, a plan, or an act, it is not a sin.

If there's consent, there's sin. Jesus told his (male) disciples that to even look at a woman to lust fter her, is a sin. I'm tellin' it straight.

There are other kinds of disordered desire. Like for alcohol. Opiates. Personal dominance. Money, power, and status.

The Gospels warn an awful lot about that.

If freedom from every trace of concupiscence (disordered desire) is needed to be saved, brother, we're doomed.