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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: St_Bill who wrote (33370)	10/16/2001 6:35:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not sure I get the distinction -- that a celibate homosexual is somehow in better shape, morally, than the practicing (funny grammar here) homosexual. Do you want my opinion, or my explination of the traditional Catholic ideas about this? I'll give you the second. The idea is that homosexual sex is wrong. You might be tempted to do wrong but if you don't do the wrong but temptation itself isn't sin. Imagine that you want money and you see a chance to steal a lot but you don't. Not stealing it would be better then stealing it. It gets a bit complex because thoughts can be sinful as well, but for something to be a sin you have to choose it. I guess if you fixate on someone that you are sexually attracted to and intentially choose just to think over and over again about having sex with them then you are commiting a sin according to this tradition. However I don't think merely being attracted to someone without doing anything about it would be considered sinful. However masterbation would be "doing something about it" in this context. It is seen as sinful because it is encourageing lustful thoughts. (although one could argue that it reduces a persons sexual urges for a time and thus could potentially actually reduce lustful thoughts). BTW - Just to make it clear I am not 100% in agreement with traditional Catholic teaching about sex. <g> Tim