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- From: fusco@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Fusco)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: SLAMMING HOMOSEXUALS AND PROLIFERS IS BIGOTED
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.171037.6455@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 17:10:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul7.192300.11581@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <90629@bu.edu> <1992Jul9.155124.24608@wam.umd.edu> <1992Jul24.184422.16939@coopsol.com>
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- gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
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- ><1992Jul9.155124.24608@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) said:
- >>><1992Jul7.192300.11581@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- >>>jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
- >>>>In THEORY homosexuality is just fine. Two people of the same gender
- >>>>who just so happen to be sexually attracted to each other.
- >>
- >>I fail to see why this is "theory".
- >>To me, it seems quite "experimental". No, having sex and loving someone is
- >>not the same thing.
- >>However, this is not the first time I see some religious person saying:
- >>To be attacted to someone of the same sex, or even to love someone of
- >>the same sex, is not a sin. To practice homosexuality/bisexuality is a sin.
- >>
- >>Now, loving or being attacted to someone of your same sex, at least to me,
- >>is the same as "practicing".
- >>
- >>So, if you are religious, and you find out that you are homosexual/bisexual,
- >>you can be part of a GBL organization, be vocal for GBL rights, even be
- >>attacted to a person of your same sex. However, you should marry someone
- >>of the opposite sex and have sex with your wife/husband only. Then, you are
- >>saved. Right???
-
- >What strikes me as being extremely hypocritical of these religious folks
- >is that their "savior" told them that even thinking sinful thoughts is the
- >same as committing them (see Sermon on the Mount). Yet they say it's ok
- >to have homosexual thoughts, just don't act on them.
-
- >The stench of hypocrisy gets stronger everyday.
-
- I'll explain what the Church teaches regarding the sinfulness of a person's
- thoughts. The Church understands that there is a distinction between thoughts
- which a person does and does not approve of. If the action someone
- is thinking of is sinful, but that person derives no pleasure in it, and
- struggles to reject it, then no sin is committed. The Church has always
- taught that such temptation is to be avoided, but is not in itself sinful.
- When the individual consents to the sinful idea in his head, and derives
- pleasure in thinking about it, then he has committed the sin that Jesus
- spoke of when saying that "the man who lusts in his heart has already
- committed adultery." If someone is pleased with homosexual thoughts, then
- that person has most certainly committed sin. If he does not accept them,
- then they remain a temptation with which that person must struggle. There
- is no hypocrisy to be found here.
-