COMMONWEAL VS. THE COMMON WOUND, PART 300 IN A SERIES.

They say:

As Alison lays out the argument, Catholicism has long taught that people are heterosexual by nature, and that homosexual activity is thus unnatural. But this teaching conflicts with the growing recognition that homosexuality is a way of being, not simply a way of acting; unchosen, it belongs to one’s nature or essence. Drawing upon the scholastic axiom agere sequitur esse (acts flow from being), Alison maintains one cannot hold both that the homosexual inclination is natural or involuntary and that homosexual acts are inherently evil.

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I can’t think of a really awesome way to point out all the problems in this theology except to say, “Can you really believe this, unless you believe you’re a Good Person?”

I mean… think of the worst thing you’ve ever loved. Is that love peripheral to you, or in some complex way, central? Are you absolutely sure that no “bad” love could ever be central to someone’s self-conception?

Mary Gauthier says:
Fish swim.
Birds fly.
Daddies yell,
Mommas cry.
Old men
Sit and think–
I drink.