How Does Homosexuality Fall Short Of The "personalistic Norm"?

[Theresita Nerita]

Im posting here because I dont want a debate on homosexuality, but a Scholar to tell me the actual teaching:

If as JPII says in Love and Responsibility, chastity consists in always remembering that a person is not simply "body and sex" but in loving (desiring the best for) the full person, why wouldn't it be possible for a homosexual relationship to be chaste if it were both people desiring the best for each other as they understood it in good faith?

In short, is there some true (not hearsay) universal disadvantage to homosexual acts that makes them intrinsically incompatible with desiring-the-best-for (loving) the other person? If so, is it simply scripture-based, or also observable? Thanks!

[Theoketos]

The only way to treat a person like a person (personalistic norm) that is to say the only way for a person not be used like a thing during conjugal act is for there to be present the unitive and procreative meaning.

What does that mean?

1. The unitive meaning includes, but is not limited to, permenance (forever) and exclusivity (you cannot be replaced). ~ONE

2. The procreative meaning includes, but is not limited to, openness to life, selflessness, and otherness. ~TO ANOTHER

3.When we say with words, "I love you." Those words can either be the truth or a lie.

When human engage in sexual activity, the meaning or message of the body during sex is "I love you."

This message is a lie when the unitive or procreative message or meaning is missing. The person becomes a tool for physical pleasure instead of a partner in the creation of love.

Those sexual acts that purposely preclude the possiblity of paternity changes the nature and object of the act. One might say in the venacular the denial of union or procreation leads to the act no longer about making love but instead it becomes just having sex.

4. The generative act is human when it points us to God.

For the best article ever written on this please see Dr. Mark Lowery's [i]Authentic Freedom and the Homosexual Person. [/i]


Here is a link: [url="http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/mlowery_homosexuality1_jun07.asp"]http://www.ignatiusi...lity1_jun07.asp[/url]


L&R impacted my life in such a deep way, I could never give God glory enough for his teachings in that book.