cmotherofpirl Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aluigi Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 homosexuals are not required to change, but they CAN change. Courage is officially recognized supported and promoted by the Church. so long as they are chaste, it is good. they can share heavenly love (the kind St. Francis shared with St. Clare) with anyone they want (perhaps Hyper and John could work that out, i pray for them all the time), romantic love must only be directed at the opposite sex. they are called to chastity. the Catholic Church does not oppose psychologists who help them change, it is not contrary to the Church for them to change or for psychologists to help them change. however, even NARTH admits that 1/3 of the people that struggle with SSA will never change. i don't care why you think that is, i happen to think the research shows that is the more active they are in the lifestyle the less likely they are of being able to change. you may think these people simply are that way and must be chaste the rest of their life. that is fine. protestantism didn't introduce curing them. the Church used to condone burning them at the stake because she didn't know what else to do with people who did such things, and now she condones either their chastity or their "cure", whichever one fits their specific case. there are good reputable psychologists who deal in both the chastity and/or the cure schools of thought and apply them based on individual cases. To say no one can be cured is absurd, it has been shown to work. To say everyone can be cured is absurd, it has been shown that at least 1/3 can't be cured by the most prominent expert psychologists in the field (that hold to the school of thought that it is something that should be cured) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 [quote name='Socrates' date='Jan 5 2005, 05:14 PM'] We should seek to cure people of their diseases. One cannot seek a cure if the disease is not acknowledged? This is (true) compassion, not bigotry. Why do some (supposedly Catholic) people here seem so intent on saying (or implying) that homosexuality is somehow really not that bad? That goes against everything the Catholic Church teaches on this subject. [/quote] Maybe because some people act like a homosexual is the devil incarnate. A person having homosexual intercourse committing mortal sin. So is a person committing heterosexual intercourse outside of marriage, murdering or raping, robbing etc. All of them get you into hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilroy the Ninja Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Jan 5 2005, 05:21 PM'] Maybe because some people act like a homosexual is the devil incarnate. A person having homosexual intercourse committing mortal sin. So is a person committing heterosexual intercourse outside of marriage, murdering or raping, robbing etc. All of them get you into hell. [/quote] Amen to that Cmom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catholic_Pinoy Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 [url="http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.html"]http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.html[/url] [url="http://www.couragerc.org"]http://www.couragerc.org[/url] [url="http://www.narth.com"]http://www.narth.com[/url] [url="http://www.drthrockmorton.com"]http://www.drthrockmorton.com[/url] [url="http://www.pfox.org"]http://www.pfox.org[/url] [url="http://www.lovewonout.org"]http://www.lovewonout.org[/url] [url="http://www.peoplecanchange.com"]http://www.peoplecanchange.com[/url] [url="http://www.newdirection.ca/research/spitzer.htm"]http://www.newdirection.ca/research/spitzer.htm[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Friday Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 [quote name='Aluigi']homosexuals are not required to change, but they CAN change. Courage is officially recognized supported and promoted by the Church.[/quote] First, that depends on your definition of "the Church." Courage has been endorsed by the Pontifical Council for the Family, but that does not mean that it has been "promoted by the Church." A pontifical council doesn't have any authority, it is not like one of the Sacred Congregations. Catholics routinely ignore information from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity because there is a consensus that Cardinal Kasper's ecumenism is not authentically Catholic and seeks to undermine or compromise Catholicism. If Catholics can ignore one pontifical council, they can legitimately ignore all of them, yes? Also, many homosexuals, celibate Catholic ones included, would call into serious question the notion that homosexuals can change their orientation. Many medical professionals dispute the theory made popular by Protestants and now being propagated by the Catholic Medical Association that sexual orientation can change. Most medical professionals acknowledge the illusion of change in some cases, but they say that it is only an illusion caused by deep repression, and that eventually the orientation will resurface, commonly causing great pain to the individual who believed himself or herself to be rid of his or her undesired orientation. [quote name='Aluigi']the Catholic Church does not oppose psychologists who help them change, it is not contrary to the Church for them to change or for psychologists to help them change.[/quote] I didn't say that there was. What I said is that there is nothing in Catholic teaching [i]calling[/i] for such a change, and those who act as if there is (as Socrates did when he stated an obligation to help "cure" the "diseased") are in error about Catholic teaching and are actually embracing Evangelical Protestant ethical teaching. Currently, there is nothing in Church teaching one way or the other on changing one's sexual orientation. I pray to God that it remains that way. I am not amused, however, by people who act as if it is their Catholic duty to "cure" homosexuals of their "disease" -- the language of "cure" or "disease" is not even hinted at in any Catholic teaching regarding homosexual orientation. [quote name='Aluigi']however, even NARTH admits that 1/3 of the people that struggle with SSA will never change. i don't care why you think that is, i happen to think the research shows that is the more active they are in the lifestyle the less likely they are of being able to change. you may think these people simply are that way and must be chaste the rest of their life. that is fine.[/quote] I don't agree with NARTH's research in the first place. I think it is deeply flawed, and the vast majority of the medical and scientific community disagrees with the findings of NARTH and other allegedly medical organizations with connections to Christianity (and usually Protestant Christianity) that impede their ability to be impartial in their studies. However, if I did agree with NARTH's findings, I would still disagree with your statement that those who are more active in the "homosexual lifestyle" (whatever that is supposed to be) are less likely to be "cured" (I really hate that word, have you noticed?). If NARTH's research were correct, I would think it would have more to do with how deeply they were psychologically affected by the supposed factors that led to their homosexual orientation during key developmental periods (such as the absence of a father figure, the absence of same-sex peers, the lack of rough and tumble play, etc.) I would think it would have more to do with the formative years than with involvement in the "homosexual lifestyle" (again, whatever that means). [quote name='Aluigi']protestantism didn't introduce curing them.[/quote] Well, no . . . originally, it was medical opinion that homosexuality was a mental illness that could be cured. Over time, however, medical professionals came to realize that they were wrong about their classification of homosexuality as a mental illness, and they repudiated their original diagnosis and the treatment for homosexuality. The only folks who hung onto it were those who were deeply opposed to homosexuality on moral grounds -- as I've been saying, mostly American Protestants. Within Catholicism, this idea of "curing" homosexuality was introduced by the Courage Apostolate and the Catholic Medical Association (that's where I heard about it, how about you?). I actually almost pursued the treatment. I even had a session with one of the psychiatrists that the Catholic Medical Association referred me to. So I do have some idea of what I'm talking about, I have looked into it. [quote name='Aluigi']the Church used to condone burning them at the stake because she didn't know what else to do with people who did such things, and now she condones either their chastity or their "cure", whichever one fits their specific case.[/quote] Where do you get that the Church condones [i]either[/i] their chastity or their "cure"? I have not once, in all of the documents about homosexuality by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (and I have read them all), encountered any talk whatsoever of "curing" homosexuality. It's not in the Catechism, either. I have only encountered the call to chastity, but no talk of "curing" anything. Could you cite a source? [quote name='Aluigi']say no one can be cured is absurd, it has been shown to work. To say everyone can be cured is absurd, it has been shown that at least 1/3 can't be cured by the most prominent expert psychologists in the field (that hold to the school of thought that it is something that should be cured)[/quote] I think it's a bit too soon to say that "it has been shown to work." It has been shown to temporarily repress the homosexual orientation, but it has not been sufficiently shown to effect a permanent change. There have been many cases of people who thought they were heterosexual after their "conversion therapy" having their homosexual orientation resurface because the regression therapy they experienced didn't last. That usually causes them great emotional damage, and sometimes serious damage to their mental health. If they marry and have children after their "conversion therapy" and the homosexual orientation resurfaces, it usually causes great pain to everyone involved -- the homosexual individual, his or her heterosexual spouse, and especially their children. These problems with "conversion therapy" cause most medical professionals to take pause, but not the ones who are more influenced by their Judeo-Christian moral convictions than they are by their medical education. It's a pity that they're willing to sacrifice their professional integrity, the happiness of others and sometimes the lives of others for their "convictions," isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 The homosexual condition is no different from any other pathological disorder, and the man afflicted with it may have to resist the temptations to act upon it throughout his life; but no one should make the homosexual condition, or any other concupiscential disorder into an ontological characteristic of the human person. All of the moral disorders suffered by human beings have their origin in the fall from grace, and as a consequence, grace is the only thing that can heal, perfect, and elevate man's will so that he can overcome concupiscence, and live as God intends. God bless, Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I think this thread too, has run its course. The end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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