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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: New Catholic Catechism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195157.9827@PacBell.COM>
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- References: <1e9t9eINN2jd@alice.cs.purdue.edu> <1eb4csINN3cn@alice.cs.purdue.edu> <1992Nov17.180448.27247@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:51:57 GMT
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- > pmele@ldgo.columbia.edu (phil mele) quotes the NY Times:
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- > It says that, while homosexuality is "against
- > natural law," a "not negligible" number of men
- > and women present fundamental homosexual
- > tendencies.
- > "They do not choose their homosexual condition,"
- > it goes on. "For most of them, it is an ordeal."
- >
- >i find it surprising that the church has accepted that homosexuality is
- >not a choice and that there are a considerable number of us.
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- It would be even more surprising for the church to accept its
- own not inconsiderable role in making people's "homosexual
- condition" "an ordeal."
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