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

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:55:12 GMT, Matthew Johnson
<matthew_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>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.

Yes, I believe it's right up there with wilful murder and underpaying your
workers. 


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