JERICHO CHRISTIAN AGUIATAN JOU32

DECEMBER 5, 2016 SOCIOLOGY WITH FAMILY PLANNING

THE CATHOLIC FAITH EXPLAINED IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY

Introduction

IN a perspective, we have all the connotation that men and women who have
dominant sexual attraction to the same sex are condemned to hell forever. But what
if we expose what the Holy Mother Church teaches, contrary to those views
contending with it?

Equality and Respect: Still Human Beings

Catechism of the Catholic Church par 2358 says: The number of men and
women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This
inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.
They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every
sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These
persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are
Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they
may encounter from their condition. (Emphases mine)

It clearly states that what the LGBTQ-A Community has been pushing
through: for equality and for respect. But we cant simply accept their lifestyle of
having sexual intercourse with the same sex for simply it is against the course of
nature, and moral law which is subjective to the law of God. What they push of
equality is also marriage, which is, does not constitute and approve of God.

For as we read in the same sense of the Holy Scriptures, in 1 Cor 6:9-10: Do
you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor
practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers
nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. It is certain that these people, with all
together in the plane of recurring sinfulness shall be despised because again we
read in the book of Revelation, nothing impure shall enter the Kingdom of God.

Homosexuals Called ALSO to Chastity

Catechism of the Catholic Church par 2359 says: Homosexual persons are
called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom,
at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental
grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

All of us are indeed called to chastity, and in a special way, by the grace of
God, through the Church, leads them also to the true path of purity. Agreeing to our
Holy Father Francis: If a gay person seeks for the Lord, who am I to judge? Who
are we indeed to judge a homosexual who seeks God with his/her heart? But we are
indeed free to judge them if they are persistent to the sin (lifestyle) and remind
them of the consequences.

The Catholic Church thus teaches: "Basing itself on sacred Scripture, which
presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared
that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the
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natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed
from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can
they be approved" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357).

All of Scripture teaches the unacceptability of homosexual behavior. But the

rejection of this behavior is not an arbitrary prohibition. It, like other moral
imperatives, is rooted in natural lawthe design that God has built into human
nature.

Conclusion

God is a loving Lord. We have defined Homosexuality apart from Same-sex

attraction, that, by attraction we see of not only physically but of other factors. We
must respect these homosexuals but we cannot simply accept the lifestyle they are
having, i.e., sexual intercourse. We must appreciate their talents and passions
striving for the good of the society and for Gods glory. But of their sexual desires,
its truly unacceptable. Some may contend it is equal with the heterosexual
intercourse as an expression of love, but we also repeat from the truths revealed by
God through the Scriptures and the Mother Church:

CCC 2361 Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give

themselves to one another through the acts which are proper and exclusive to
spouses, is not something simply biological, but concerns the innermost
being of the human person as such. It is realized in a truly human way only if it
is an integral part of the love by which a man and woman commit themselves
totally to one another until death (Familiaris Consortio 11).

CCC 2362 The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of
the spouses takes place are noble and honorable; the truly human performance of
these acts fosters the self-giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and
gratitude (Gaudium et Spes 49 2). Sexuality is a source of joy and pleasure:

The Creator himself . . . established that in the [generative] function, spouses

should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit. Therefore, the
spouses do nothing evil in seeking this pleasure and enjoyment. They accept what
the Creator has intended for them. At the same time, spouses should know how to
keep themselves within the limits of just moderation (Pius XII, Discourse, October
29, 1951).

2363 The spouses union achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of
the spouses themselves and the transmission of life. These two meanings or values
of marriage cannot be separated without altering the couples spiritual life and
compromising the goods of marriage and the future of the family. The conjugal love
of man and woman thus stands under the twofold obligation of fidelity and
fecundity.

The Church also acknowledges that "[homosexualitys] psychological genesis

remains largely unexplained. . . . The number of men and women who have deep-
seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively
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disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with
respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their
regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill Gods will in their
lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lords cross the
difficulties that they may encounter from their condition.