Homosexuality and the Church. The Catholic Church's view on homosexuality.

Homosexuality and The Church According to the book, Morality an Invitation to Christian Living, homosexuality is a sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. This books states that homosexual couples should not marry because it would undermine the nature of marriage. However, it also states that homosexual people and heterosexual people living within the same Christian community should treat each other in a neighborly fashion. These statements clearly contradict each other because putting restrictions …showed first 75 words of 483 total…

…showed last 75 words of 483 total…religious face the difficulty compromising between their faith and their sexuality. The conflict between these two things can be mentally and emotionally damaging, and the way the Church reacts only makes it worse. This perhaps is best stated by Dahir Muburak, in Lesbian News, when she writes "the ugly truth is that as a general role in America, religion is still mostly used to attack and hurt gay people, not to help or heal them."