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I think that can be disputed. However, I changed it to "bordello" to remove all doubt.Typically, the people who work at strip clubs aren't prostitutes.
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I think that can be disputed. However, I changed it to "bordello" to remove all doubt.Typically, the people who work at strip clubs aren't prostitutes.
Good for you, Tallguy!I'm working on it. Down about three pounds in the last month.
Did you read the OP?I didn't say they were not doing anything. I said you have no way of knowing they are doing anything if they don't tell you they are (or you have some other proof besides two people living together). How do you know the two people are attracted to each other? How do you know they are "in love" (presumably you mean Eros love)?
What is the Catholic Church view of a gay couple living together, loving each other, but abstaining from sex ?
Yup. Erotic love is only for those inside marriage- one man, one woman. periodThere is more than one kind of love.
There is nothing wrong with loving someone of the same sex, so long as it's not "Eros" love.
Well said. Avoid whatever leads you to sin.As an alcoholic, is it OK for me to keep a fully stocked bar in my house and occasionally have a few drinks, without getting drunk?
Of course we all know that a few always turns into drunkenness.
What is the Catholic Church view of a gay couple living together, loving each other, but abstaining from sex ?
I'm working on it. Down about three pounds in the last month.
there is not really a firm teaching on thisWhat is the Catholic Church view of a gay couple living together, loving each other, but abstaining from sex ?
but gay couples are not husbands and wivesVirtually all of the husband and wife Saints that we know of took vows of celibacy
My best friend is a single female, I'm a single male. I do not hold sexual feelings for her and have zero temptation to do those things with her. Even if she were to come on to me, I would absolutely decline.
A lot of people think we date, however. No amount of "just friends" seems to stop the rumors. But that's their problem, not mine.
Yes, that's what I meant. If straights can have non sexual opposite sex friends and roomates, then logically gays must have the same capacity.Exactly! People may think that a gay couple can not be together without having sex, but that doesn't add to the reality that there are many gay couple who live together without any sexual contact. In the end, you can't expect from a gay couple that lived together for years or so to leave each other just because your mind can't help it but think that they MUST be having sex.
My best friend is a single female, I'm a single male. I do not hold sexual feelings for her and have zero temptation to do those things with her. Even if she were to come on to me, I would absolutely decline.
A lot of people think we date, however. No amount of "just friends" seems to stop the rumors. But that's their problem, not mine.
If you want to claim that two gay men/women can't live together in love and passion without sex because there is lots of temptation, then you are on line with ; some Muslim imams who I grew up hearing them saying that women and men can't be in the same place in the Mosque because there will be lots of temptation, You are on line with Muslims extremists that deny women the right to drive because it will lead into temptation, You are on line with them when they say that women MUST wear burqa so they don't cause temptation to men, You are on line with them with they say women and men can't be and MUST not be friends, because there will be lots of temptation, You are on line with some extremists that say the existence of church buildings in the country will tempt some Muslims and lean them to apostasy.
I think that can be disputed. However, I changed it to "bordello" to remove all doubt.
By some people's logic, you should terminate your friendship because of the scandal it might cause to people who assume you're sleeping together.