The leftist reaction to Catholicism is the sacralization of total depravity. Everything Catholics despise, the left embraces: same sex attraction, promiscuity, the profanement of marriage through same-sex "marriage."

@MichaelA

You seem to be dramatically misunderstanding Christianity - or you misrepresent it.

New Testament and especially Jesus teaching speaks virtually nothing about these topics. It however speaks a lot about all people being equal, tolerance and peace between people of different backgrounds.

This obsession of sexual topics only appears quite late, a whole millenium after Christ.

If you truly consider yourself a Catholic, I strongly suggest you read Catechism:

vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_IN

@kravietz I read it. Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/arc Have you read of the paradox of tolerance? Live and let live, and your children are recruited into sin.

@MichaelA

And, as most bigots, you are reading the Catechism very selectively, cherry-picking what suits your current hate story:

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.

vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/arc

@kravietz For something to be good, it is requires that everything rightly concurs. When the various causes of a thing come together, they must come togeher in a suitable manner such that they are able to cause the thing together in a rightly ordered way. Another way to look at this is if, for example, two women came together in a deviant, sinful "marriage" to raise a child, those two "parents" must come together in such a manner that they do not contradict each other in relationship to what they cause in the thing that is caused. If the "parents" are defective, or if the relationship contains elements that are contrary to Natural Law, then the child will not be raised in a manner that is integrally good. As this relationship is fundamentally disordered, the women would be committing a grave sin.

St. Thomas further expounds on this in his _Questiones Disputatae de Malo_, "many are required to the good, which is perfected from the whole and integral cause, that in relation to evil, which occurs from a singular defect."

See also - Secunda Secundus

@kravietz "The good, according to Dionysius, is caused from one whole cause; but from a single defect arises evil." Evil arises from a single defect. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), in its decree condemning the Manichaean dualism of the Catharists, taught that β€œthe devil and the other evil spirits were created good in nature, but they became evil by their own actions," through their defect, their rejection of the Truth of God.

Defect means something that is lacking that would complete the being in a manner that is suited to its nature. For example, we would say that a man suffers an evil because he suffers from same-sex attraction. He does not desire his complement that is suited to his nature.

It only takes one defect or lack of being that is proper to a thing or that ought to be there, to render the whole evil.

See also
IV Sent., d. 16, q. 1 a. 1a, ad 3: Bonum, secundum Dionysium, causatur ex una integra causa; sed ex singulis defectibus consurgit malum.
De Ver., 28, a. 3, ad 15 and De Malo q. 2, a. 1, ad 3.

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@MichaelA

If you want to be a tax clerk to others, then it's your choice. You should be however aware that there's nothing more distant from Christ's teaching than this.

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