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

In article <fEfKj.1934$bQ1.484@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, A Brown says...

>>>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....

>Remember there are many, many denominations of Christians that do not
>base their theology on Canon Law.

You just couldn't come up with a response that makes sense, could you?
NO Chuch bases its _theology_ on Canon Law.

>>>  But I am reduced to guessing why it is so much more serious too;

>Well, we tend to be much more understanding of sins that hit close to 
>home....and less tolerant of the sins of "others".

I can't imagine why you would believe this. It is just another false
generalization.

>I assume that homo***uality was thought at the time to be affecting
>only a few perverts on the edge of society.

But this is a _bad_ assumption.

>The Sins of *those people* are thought to be much more severe than
>the sins of others.

And here is another.

>i.e....Men (not women)made most of the rules/laws...so is it any
>surprise that when a woman was caught in adultry, she was to be
>stoned to death?

You just had to dig yourself deeper into confusion, didn't you? We
were not _talking_ about the Mosaic Law. But it is the Mosaic Law, not
Canon Law, that called for her to be "stoned to death".

>What happens to to the man involved?  I guess the writers of the law had 
>much more understanding for him.....than her.

Then you guess wrong -- again. Canon Law calls for the same penalty
for both: excommunication for several years.

But for the sin _you_ are in favor of, the penalty is a much longer
period of excommunication. That makes it clear which is regarded as
the more serious, incurable sin.


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