This is why I refuse to accept the LGBT+ community (Holy Spirit, divine)
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Why refuse to accept something which doesn't harm you or anyone else?
Soft hearts, warm souls, open minds.
At the end of your life on earth, do you want to look back and say I didn't accept others for who
they were even though it didn't hurt anyone?
I wish I had said this....you are soft-hearted and smart. xo
Ultimately I've learned that religious teachings like you are promoting have a significant way of twisting what is purely normal and natural into something we're supposed to view in a way that mostly makes millions of people feel guilty about sinning when actually there is no reason to feel guilty about anything.
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Originally Posted by EscAlaMike
I don't think there's anything "normal" or "natural" about mentally transforming a fellow human being into an object to be consumed for the sole purpose of satisfying our own base sexual gratification.
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Originally Posted by LearnMe
Me either, but here's to getting back out of the deep end...
So we're both on the same page. Lust, as defined by the Catholic Church, is neither "normal" or "natural" to you either.
Why refuse to accept something which doesn't harm you or anyone else?
Soft hearts, warm souls, open minds.
At the end of your life on earth, do you want to look back and say I didn't accept others for who they were even though it didn't hurt anyone?
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Originally Posted by EscAlaMike
"for who they were"?
You would reduce a human being's entire identity to the type of sex they like?
QuakerBaker can speak for herself (and does, very well!).... but I took her thoughtful, gentle admonition as applying to ANY aspect of what makes people who they are, be it hair color, or skin color, or IQ, or place they live, or language they speak, or heritage, or occupation, or sexual identity. I don't see anyone reducing a person's entire being to any of those things (and many more) that combine to make us who we are.
QuakerBaker can speak for herself (and does, very well!).... but I took her thoughtful, gentle admonition as applying to ANY aspect of what makes people who they are, be it hair color, or skin color, or IQ, or place they live, or language they speak, or heritage, or occupation, or sexual identity. I don't see anyone reducing a person's entire being to any of those things (and many more) that combine to make us who we are.
So we're both on the same page. Lust, as defined by the Catholic Church, is neither "normal" or "natural" to you either.
Your definition was
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I don't think there's anything "normal" or "natural" about mentally transforming a fellow human being into an object to be consumed for the sole purpose of satisfying our own base sexual gratification.
Referring back to the thread topic, how does that definition apply to same sex couple any more than opposite sex couples?
Referring back to the thread topic, how does that definition apply to same sex couple any more than opposite sex couples?
It doesn't necessarily.
The difference is that there is no morally legitimate way for two people of the same sex to engage in sexual activity, while there does exist a morally legitimate way for two people of the opposite sex to engage in sexual activity.
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