Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: miken@mirror.tmc.com (Mike Nappo) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: homosexuality Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 09:06:34 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Mirror Systems. Cambridge, Mass. Lines: 36 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com writes: >Whether homosexuality is an inborn tendency or not is really irrelevant. > >We all have a fallen human nature, with tendencies towards all kinds of >sins. > >What is objectionable is trying to call vice virtue. > >Joe Buehler How can you say that it is irrelevant that homosexuality is an inborn tendency or not? If it is inborn, then acting upon those tendencies are only natural to that person. It is neither vice nor virtue. Also, I don't think that the Church has EVER said [please correct if wrong] that homosexuality isn't inborn. It has only stated that acting on those feelings is objectionable. In fact, as far as I know, the Church has clearly said that homosexual orientation itself is not the issue: acting on that orientation is. Convoluted? You bet. It sort of reminds me of those good nuns who used to torment [actually brutalize] their left handed students into becoming right handed. To be otherwise, was deemed a defect. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- - Mike Nappo miken@mirror.TMC.COM * * {mit-eddie, pyramid, harvard!wjh12, xait}!mirror!miken - - Mirror Systems, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 * * (617)661 - 0777 - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*