[cammie]

I think the Church should be careful about the whole “no priests with deep seated homosexual tendencies” thing. THe Church could go too far with this: one’s sexual orientation is not a sinful matter. One’s acting out on that orientation may be a sinful matter. And that goes for straight men just as well as gay men. So they should add “no deep seated hetero tendencies” as well, if they mean they don’t want people who can’t control their urges

[adiaireton8]

Do you think it is not possible to have sinful desires? More specifically, do you think that if action x is wrong, then desiring to do action x is not wrong?

-A8

[sitetest]

Dear cammie,

“So they should add ‘no deep seated hetero tendencies’ as well, if they mean they don’t want people who can’t control their urges...”

Why?

A heterosexual orientation isn't intrinsically disordered. Heterosexual acts are not intrinsically evil.

sitetest

[fr_freak]

I think the Church should be careful about the whole “no priests with deep seated homosexual tendencies” thing.

Unless you are an ordained priest, or some other such Biblical and Catholic scholar, I'd say that your advice to the Church is roughly equivalent to posting advice to NASA on how to launch and land the next Mars probe. People should know their limitations.

[Wonder Warthog]

"THe Church could go too far with this: one’s sexual orientation is not a sinful matter. One’s acting out on that orientation may be a sinful matter. And that goes for straight men just as well as gay men. So they should add “no deep seated hetero tendencies” as well, if they mean they don’t want people who can’t control their urges"

Wrong. Homosexuality is considered disordered (not normal mentally), hetero is normal. The problems the Church had pre-2005 was that they bought into the idea that "queers are OK as long as they are celibate". The practical finding is that they WON'T stay celibate.

[cothrige]

I think the Church should be careful about the whole “no priests with deep seated homosexual tendencies” thing. THe Church could go too far with this: one’s sexual orientation is not a sinful matter.

You are making an assumption here. Just because the Church says that people with deep seated homosexual tendencies are not to be accepted into the seminary does not mean that the Church is then saying that this condition is sinful. The Chuch also excludes women but certainly you wouldn't propose that being a woman is a "sinful matter"?

[Iscool]

So they should add “no deep seated hetero tendencies” as well, if they mean they don’t want people who can’t control their urges

How long do ya think a heterosexual priest and nun could take showers together and sleep in the same room before their clear thinking started getting a little cloudy???