I won't bother critiquing the entire article. However, one example may illustrate how radical homosexualistas will distort the truth to malign anyone who stands in the way of their drive to demand social approval and legal protection for relationships that are inherently sterile and destructive to society. The author of the Pioneer Press article writes,
"Parents of gay children reel at the language in official documents released years ago by the Vatican that labels people in same-sex relationships as 'objectively disordered' and 'instinctively inclined toward evil.'"
To put it bluntly, the author either is misinformed or dishonest. Consider what the Catechism of the Catholic Church actually says:
2358 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.Note that the Catechism does not label any person as 'objectively disordered', but instead applies this label to a certain kind of acts. At the same time the Catechism speaks with great sensitivity and compassion of those who struggle with inclinations or tendencies toward such acts.
Unlike the bleak, fatalistic message of many of the radical homosexualists who proclaim that many people are by nature 'gay' and must live according to that orientiation, the Catholic Church asserts the humane and hope-filled message that people are not enslaved by their desires and tendencies, and are capable of transcending even strong and deep-seated inclinations in order to live a life of holiness in keeping with the teachings of Christ.
But some people hate that truth and don't want to hear it. Rather than part company with the Church because they reject its teachings, they try to change the Church so that it no longer teaches what Jesus gave it to teach, and no longer serves as the beacon of truth that it most certainly is.
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