Re: How Should We Respond to Homo***uality?

In article <0WBIj.14870$oE1.2335@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Catherine Jefferson says...
>
>Steve Hayes wrote:

[snip]

>While I don't deny the words of 
>Scripture nor the Church Fathers on the subject, I never did understand 
>why many seemed so inordinately disgusted by this particular sin and so 
>tolerant of other ***ual sins.  As best I can tell, the Holy Scriptures 
>consider homo***ual *** to be simply one of many forms of fornication, 
>no worse than others.

I haven't verified it myself by looking it up in Canon Law, but I _was_
told
that the canonical penalty for this particular sin was much more severe
than for
the other forms of fornication. But don't take my word for it; you can
look it
up yourself.

But I am reduced to guessing why it is so much more serious too; my guess
is
that it is because more so than any other fornication, it is a radical
denial of
the mission of Man as described by St. Maximos the Confessor, to unite the
divisions of Creation, here, that between male and female.

Of course, that does not explain why the non-Orthodox excoriate this sin
above
all others, even taking delight in doing so. But despite how it may seem,
I
don't pretend to have answers to everything;)


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