Nicene Guys: Catholics and Gays Part 2

Question: Why are romantic homosexual relationships (RHR) incompatible with the Catholic faith? Specifically, what are the implications of different which makes RHR disordered?

In my previous post discussing Catholics and Gays, I explained why RHR are incompatible with the Catholic Faith, though noted that while my explanation was a reasonable one, it would also be rather dogmatic. It was in fact arguably tautological, since the beginning premise was the assumption for the sake of argument that the Catholic Faith is true. To reject the teachings of the Catholics Church is to cease to be a faithful Catholic. I noted that this isn't the most convincing of all arguments to a non-Catholic, but then I was working within the premises given. Now let's approach the question from a different angle: why, exactly, is it true that RHR are sinful?

In her discussion of the issue, Miss Leah Libresco admits, as any honest atheist must admit, that she is familiar that Catholics trace the teaching against RHR both through revelation qua revelation, and as revealed by that part of reason which looks to the Natural Law [1]. The former pertains to, for example, the Law revealed to Moses, Christ's and St Paul's retaining of at least a part of this Law, etc., and was implicit in my previous post. The latter is the "Law written on the heart" as St Paul puts it (Romans 2:15), and it is certainly known to non-Catholics, as for example Profs. Hadley Arkes or J Budziszewski before their respective conversions. And indeed, though Aristotle himself did not teach against RHR [2], it is somewhat Aristotelian reasoning which leads to to the Natural Law proscriptions against RHR.

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