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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
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- Subject: Re: New Catholic Catechism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.040808.29552@spdcc.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:08:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov18.040808.29552
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- In article <1992Nov17.180448.27247@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> pmele@ldgo.columbia.edu (phil mele) writes:
- >i find it surprising that the church has accepted that homosexuality is
- >not a choice
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- Actually, this was never a particularly controversial point in
- Roman Catholic moral theology, not that it's particularly indicative
- of any largesse on their part. It is useful to realize that 1000
- years of Thomist philosophy yields a grindstone somewhat more
- sophisticated than your typical Bible Belt Fundamentalist shouting
- about "choice".
-
- >and that there are a considerable number of us.
-
- Well, Mary, all they had to do is look around! :-)
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