ShoeDiva said:
I said wow, because of how you asked, not that you asked. (The sentence starting with "Okay") You can ask!! It just seemed condescending how it was presented.
You saying it is God's stance is where I am unsure. He has already spoken. (I went to parochial school people do not post all the scripture, I know where it is.
) I believe if you asked 10 people of 10 different religions they will give you 10 different interpretations of the same passage.
I know many gay people that are very religious, how do we explain that? They are able to recite verse, give great Christian advice, but totally believe that they were born gay and that it was God that created them that way. Are they wrong? I do not know.
Have a good day at work. Stay safe.
God
really has spoken, and those strong words--you know where they are--have already been definitively interpreted by the Church. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We cannot second-guess God, believing our thoughts might possibly be higher than His. That is folly.
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We have a beautiful teaching about this, and I don't want to insult you by quoting the Catechism--but, to summarize for the sake of others--homosexual acts are gravely depraved, seriously disordered. These acts can in no wise be condoned, and persons inclined such acts are called to chastity. Yet, as human beings made in the image and likeness of God, they are to be treated with the greatest respect and sensitivity. And I
will quote the following sentence because it is very beautiful.
"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."
That sentence applies to each and every one of us. To approach Christian perfection is my passion--both for myself and all my fellow human beings!