ah, NO!!!!!
Where in what I said, said that?
Y'all gotta stop doing this. For real... it makes y'all look so bad.
That is the point! straight ppl can be just as deviant... even married Catholics can be just as deviant- they just think as long as it all end the right way- its all good.
that is the whole point! they can hide it and look like living saints to the rest, where gay ppl wear it on their sleeve.
Truth is, you don't know what anyone does behind closed doors and they don't get to be ridiculed and preached at and have their souls saved like the gays do.
you think because of that, that we can't visibly see what straight ppl do - gays are some how worse sinners. That is not what the Church teaches and its not even rational to conclude that.
You are just reaching for straws trying to find a reason to think heterosexual sins are prettier than gay sins.
They aren't- they just can be faked about it.
and gays have it worse because two gay men waking into Mass, who may be just friends and both are chaste, the high and mighty Catholics will assume they are rotten dirty sinners, where the nice little un married couple, they could be gettin it on like Donkey Kong but they're given the befit of the doubt and don't get stared at with dagger's, like the gays do.
that is the discrimination that is so embedded, that should try to weed out of our hearts.
AND I FIND IT JUST AS NASTY TO SEE ADULTERY ON TV AS ENTERTAINMENT.
I do not pick and chose what i defend a proclivity as a seeming honor to sin...
I would never say 'Get over it - adultery is here to stay.' about all the trash on tv. Giving scandal to impressionable teens, young people.
Knock it off because you are really P me off like you did before with your "baring a false witness".
STOP IT! I have NOT ONCE SAID THAT GAY SEX IS OKAY.
SSA is NOT a sin and your pope said so.
Do you even know what sin in the committed sense is??!! Having a SSA is not a committed sin. having a disordered passion is NOT a committed sin! a gay person is not in sin for having a SSA.
WHEN are you gonna get this through to your head!?
It is really unfortunate
you think the Catechism
says only one thing and goes no further - when i have been in fact trying to teach what it states about SSA - and giving it up and replaced for God...
YOU TELL US IT IS IMPOSSIBLE...your opinion. [Yours alone]
I said it takes a long time - but it is possible.,
NOW read the Catechism for yourself.
Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 2 ARTICLE 6
The integrity of the person
2338 The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it.
It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech.125
2339 Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is clear:
either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.126 "Man's dignity therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by mere external constraint. Man gains such
dignity when, ridding himself of all slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the means suited to this end."127
2340 Whoever wants to remain faithful to his baptismal promises and resist temptations will want to adopt the means for doing so: self-knowledge, practice of an ascesis adapted to the situations that confront him, obedience to God's commandments, exercise of the moral virtues, and fidelity to prayer. "
Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity."128
2341 The virtue of chastity comes under the cardinal virtue of
temperance, which
seeks to permeate the passions and appetites of the senses with reason.
2342 Self-mastery is a
long and exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It
presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life.129 The effort required can be more intense in certain periods, such as when the personality is being formed during childhood and adolescence.
2343 Chastity has
laws of growth which progress through stages marked by imperfection and too often by sin. "Man . . . day by day builds himself up through his many free decisions; and so he knows, loves, and
accomplishes moral good by stages of growth."130
2344 Chastity represents an eminently personal task; it also involves a
cultural effort, for there is "an interdependence between personal betterment and the improvement of society."131 Chastity presupposes respect for the rights of the person, in particular the
right to receive information and an education that respect the moral and spiritual dimensions of human life.
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2345 Chastity is a moral virtue. It is
also a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual effort.132 The Holy Spirit enables one whom the water of Baptism has regenerated
to imitate the purity of Christ.133
The integrality of the gift of self
2348 All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "
put on Christ,"135 the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity.
2349 "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which
enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single."136 Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:
There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others. . . . This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.137
2350 Those who are
engaged to marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity.
Offenses against chastity
2351 Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.