Comments on: Is Ordination a Right?

By: guynearic

guynearic — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:42:38 +0000

so then are you saying that homosexual sex is “mega-mortal sin” and heterosexual sex outside of marriage, including masturbation, is merely “mortal sin”. this sounds like something that might have arisen in dante’s inferno and that, therefore, homosexuality would be punished in a bolga much lower, therefore much more severely, than heterosexual sins.
so the logic of this is that there are degrees of punishment in eternal damnation, correct? i’ve been looking at the catechism for clarification on this but maybe it isn’t discussed in my new version. do you have any insights regarding this that i’m not aware of? thanks!

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By: Joshua LeBlanc

Joshua LeBlanc — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:06:34 +0000

guynearic,

With regards to your first question “Is heterosexual sex outside of marriage a less grevious sin than homosexual sex?” My answer is yes, though I would rather put it that homosexual sex is a more grevious sin than heterosexual sex — always. With regards to the laws there are three particular kinds of law: Divine Law, Natural Law, and Ecclesiastical law. While both heterosexual sex outside of marriage violates all three laws, Aquinas would say that it violates the Natural law because it violates reason. It however does fulfill its natural purpose because the purposes of sexual activity (for bonding and procreation of children) is not necessarily hendered if done without contraceptives. Homosexual sex on the other hand violates the natural law because the ends of sexual intercourse can never result in offspring and so therefore there is not even a glimpse of naturality. My point is that the homosexual act is completely depraved

“Are heterosexual seminarians and priests less of a threat to society than homosexual seminarians and priests?” I’ll let you be the judge of that. The point I make is that 98% of the people involved in the sex scandal were priests who molested younger boys. I personally believe that the disordered propsensity towards homosexuality lead to the depraved pedophilia.

“Are heterosexual activities by seminarians and priests less frequently reported and charged than homosexual activities?” I really can’t answer this question as it is beyond the scope of what my article was really dealing with.

For more information I suggest reading this article by Dr. Janet Smith –> http://www.aodonline.org/aodonline-sqlimages/SHMS/Faculty/SmithJanet/Publications/MoralPhilosophy/ThomisticNaturalLaw.pdf

By: guynearic

guynearic — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:46:54 +0000

is heterosexual sex outside of marriage a less grevious mortal sin than homosexual sex? are heterosexual seminarians and priests less of a threat to society than homosexual seminarians and priests. are heterosexual activities by seminarians and priests less frequently reported and charged than homosexual activities?
i’m not advocating accepting homosexuals to the priesthood but it always seems to me that heterosexual misdeeds are held in less contemp than homosexual misdeeds, which, in fact, might be a redundant phrase.