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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Wes, I never compare myself as being the savior in comparision to Christ, but if your familiar with scripture.....we are suppose to imitate Christ...that is why he came for us.. to show us how to live, speak and reveal who he is... I do not think Christ would want us to reveal a undignified, unworthy and mean spirited person... which I am not...but I will not sit back and defend and become one with a lie...which is what homosexual love is...It has become a normal union of persons for you and you all are so passionate about the rights of a homosexual lifestyle that your not seeing the real picture... ..which is the dehumanizing of the human person. In our divine teachings, a real human though he may look human isn't until he reflects the essence of who the Christ was and is, which is the perfect human. In our striving to become a complete person with Christ, we try to repel anything that keeps us from this union. A tendency to mate with a same sex person is a falsehood. A tendency to mate with anyone outside the realms of a male/female committed union is a falsehood. According to our Chrisitan teachings, and why we believe the way we do ..... God created the body as a "sign" of his own divine mystery. Because God is the source of the compliments of the sexes, when God created man in the image of himself, he created both a male and a female. They were then directed to be fruitful and multiply by becoming one flesh. This was the original vocation of man and woman, to unite their bodies and produce life, but to do so in the "image of God" which means it must bear the these characteristics ....it must be free,... total,... faithful and fruitful always and forever. This teaching was not something invented by the our RC but taken directly from scripture. From the book of Genesis the bible uses spousal love more than any other image to help us understand God's eternal plan for humanity, We can see from reading, God wants to marry us. A passage in Hosea 2 tells us ..God wants to live with us in an "eternal exchange of love." This marital analogy is used because it best describes what God intends for us too to love as he loves, and to be united in that love with an "other" as well as with God. We were made for love and communion and this desire is inscribed into our very bodies. For us, we cannot achieve its desire without an "other." Male and female have a built-in desire for an "other" not a "same." Because humans have a soul, their union should far surpass the mere sense level of animals, and should involve the spirit as well as the body. In should be love that unites them, not just a physical urge. And this love that unites man and woman is meant to mirror God's love, which has certain characteristics its free.... total,.... faithful and fruitful. This is exactly what spouses commit to at the altar or with the preacher . . . to give themselves to one another without reservations, to be faithful until death, and to receive whatever children God wishes to send them. Every time this couple unites themselves in the marital embrace, they are, in a sense, renewing those vows. This is the proper reflection of God's marital love for us, in the marital embrace of those he created in his own image. Per Christian teachingsd homosexual unions are not marital as God's love is marital because they are not fruitful. Homosexuality reduces the meaning of real sexuality as mere sensations and lacks the true gift of self that reflects authentic marital love. The longings for a union that is stamped into our very bodies becomes distorted and confused, driving us farther and yonder in search of a satisfaction that does not exist outside of God's plan. But the meaning behind the sriptuiral Churchs teaching on human sexuality goes deeper . Our experience reaveals that even in the most wonderful human relationship, that ache of solitude isn't entirely satisfied. We still yearn for something more. If sex really was our ultimate fulfillment, then marriage would be nirvana. . . . The marital embrace, as beautiful as it is, is only a foreshadowing of what's to come ? only a sign of something far greater . . .""" A union with God. """ Have you ever heard this famous saying in religious circles "every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God." Same is true of homosexual distorted love. Our desire for union with an "other" will never be ultimately satisfied until we are united with our creator. We have to remind our selves original sin robbed us of this ability to love as God loves. This is why we need a Redeemer. Jesus didn't die and rise again just to give us a kind of coping mechanism. Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins. Jesus came to give us what we lost. That's why the Church claims that our longing for union can only be satisfied in Christ. Our good news is that through genuine conversion of heart to the message of life found in Jesus Christ, we can all be liberated from what the domination of LUST in its counterfits, which of one is homosexuality.. Christ's grace can accomplish all that we cannot. If we live according to the truth of our sexuality we fulfill the very meaning of life. . We as Christians believe with the grace of God we can destroy the existiting conterfit culture that brings eternal death and brings us back to the glory of this great creation of earth. DL.. I have always heard and real how the life of a homosexual is a hardlife because they go against the grain of human existance. I found this in our teachings but you can find the same info on any secular site: Emotional/Mental Health Risks Two extensive studies published in the October 1999 issue of American Medical Association Archives of General Psychiatry confirmed the existence of a strong link between homosexuality and suicide, as well as other mental and emotional problems. Youth who identify themselves as homosexual, lesbian and bisexual are four times more likely than their peers to suffer from major depression; three times more likely to suffer anxiety disorders, four times more likely to suffer conduct disorders, six times more likely to suffer from multiple disorders and more than six times more likely to have attempted suicide. Many homosexual activists point their finger at homophobia as the cause of these disorders, but the most extensive studies have been done in the Netherlands and New Zealand where homosexuality is widely accepted. In an interview with Zenit News, Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, a child and adult psychiatrist in practice for more than 27 years, said, "Compared to controls who had no homosexual experience in the 12 months prior to the interviews, males who had any homosexual contact within that time period were much more likely to experience major depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia and obsessive compulsive disorder. Females with any homosexual contact within the previous 12 months were more often diagnosed with major depression, social phobia or alcohol dependence." He concluded by saying, "Men and women with a history of homosexual contact had a higher prevalence of nearly all psychiatric disorders measured in the study. These findings are the result of a lifestyle marked by rampant promiscuity and an inability to make commitments, combined with unresolved sadness, profound insecurity, anger and mistrust from childhood and adolescence." Physical Abuse A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health has shown that 39 percent of males with same-sex attraction have been abused by other homosexual men. A study by Susan Turrell entitled "A descriptive analysis of Same-Sex Relationship Violence for a Diverse Sample," and published in the Journal of Family Violence (vol 13, pp 281-293), found that relationship violence was a significant problem for homosexuals. Forty-four percent of gay men reported having experienced violence in their relationship; 13 percent reported sexual violence and 83 percent reported emotional abuse. Levels of abuse ran even higher among lesbians with 55 percent reporting physical violence, 14 percent reporting sexual abuse and 84 percent reporting emotional abuse. As outrageous as it might sound, "Most medical groups have embraced the homosexual agenda and are advocating that lifestyle despite all the scientific studies and medical evidence that demonstrate medical and psychological risks," said Joseph Nicolosi, President of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality. "Homosexual activism and political correctness are clearly trumping science." Church Teaching The same forces are also attempting to stifle authentic Church teaching on this subject by labeling it as "homophobic" and "hate speech." However, once one is made fully aware of the medical facts, it's much easier to understand why the Church teaches that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law." (CCC2357) Unfortunately, the word 'disordered' steals all the attention and leaves much of Church teaching drowned out by angry invectives. Father John Harvey, founder of Courage, a support group for people with same sex attraction who are seeking to live a chaste life, laments the fact that far too many people, including Catholics themselves, are left with the impression of ". . .an authoritarian Church that makes decisions arbitrarily, without considering the nature of things. Nothing could be further from the truth." Even from an immunological point of view, the body itself considers homosexual acts to be disordered. For instance, there are substances in seminal fluid called "immuno-regulatory macromolecules" that send out "signals" that are only understood by the female body, which will then permit the "two in one flesh" intimacy required for human reproduction. When deposited elsewhere, these signals are not only misunderstood, but cause sperm to fuse with whatever somatic body cell they encounter. This fusing is what often results in the development of cancerous malignancies. ("Sexual Behavior and Increased Anal Cancer", Immunology and Cell Biology 75 (1977); 181-183)) Clearly, Church teaching on human sexuality is not founded upon pious patriarchal prudery, but is soundly based in science, biology and anthropology ? all of which is illumined by the added gift of faith. Loading...
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