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“Love is Love” is an oft heard phrase among those who wish to justify inappropriate expressions of love. To the world around us, it may sound marvelously reasonable, even genteel, like the old phrase “Live and Let Live;” but of the phrase’s subtlety beware, for love is not love when the action is wrong. Take for example the 1972 song, “(If loving you is wrong), I don’t want to be right.” The theme is about an adulterous relationship where the feeling of the person first questions, and then rejects correct moral reasoning. It supports the common idea that love is somehow subjective; that because it is valid in the mind of the person, it can’t be wrong. “Love is Love” is a slick form of propaganda to candy-coat a poisonous pill; sin. And what is sin but disobedience to a known law.
As Catholics, we are taught right from wrong. We acknowledge this in The Penitential Act that precedes the Mass where we confess to almighty God and our brothers and sisters, that we have greatly sinned, in thoughts, words, and deeds (done or failed to do). Yet even non-believers understand what it means to obey or disobey a law, and because of that very knowledge, this particular pill is flavor-coated to pass over discerning tastebuds. How better to skirt a law than to declare it subjective to feelings? Or rename it to sound more acceptable?
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As Catholics, we are taught right from wrong. We acknowledge this in The Penitential Act that precedes the Mass where we confess to almighty God and our brothers and sisters, that we have greatly sinned, in thoughts, words, and deeds (done or failed to do). Yet even non-believers understand what it means to obey or disobey a law, and because of that very knowledge, this particular pill is flavor-coated to pass over discerning tastebuds. How better to skirt a law than to declare it subjective to feelings? Or rename it to sound more acceptable?
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The Fallacy of “Love is Love”
The movement, the willful action of love must be completely good, or it is evil.
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