October 1, 2014 - 3:23 PM
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In recent years, homosexuality has frequently been in the news. An increasingly nationwide effort to make homosexual acts something to celebrate has gained great ground and sowed serious confusion, even among those who describe themselves as Christian and Catholic. Hence, it is necessary, once again, to instruct on this matter, to reassert what Scripture plainly teaches and explain why the Church cannot affirm what the world demands we affirm.
An essential fact is that the Scriptures are unambiguous and uncompromisingly clear in declaring homosexual acts as sin and as disordered. “Disordered” here means that they are acts that are not ordered to their proper end or purpose. Sexual acts are, by their very nature, ordered to procreation and to the bonding of the mother and father who will raise the children conceived by their sexual intimacy. These ends or purposes have been intrinsically joined by God, and we are not to separate what God has joined. In the Old Testament, Scripture describes the sinful and disordered quality of homosexual acts by the use of the word “abomination,” and in the New Testament, St. Paul calls homosexual acts “paraphysin” (contrary to nature).
Attempts by some to reinterpret Scripture are fanciful at best, and they use theories that require twisted logic and questionable historical views in an attempt to set aside the very plain meaning of the texts.
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