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Homosexuality and the Gift of Marriage
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Homosexuality and the Gift of Marriage

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Kaleb Hammond
May 12, 2022
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Homosexuality and the Gift of Marriage
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According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, homosexual acts are sins against the virtue of chastity and thus against both marriage and our God-given sexual nature. It lists three specific reasons for homosexual acts being “intrinsically disordered”:

1. They are “contrary to the natural law.”

2. They “close the sexual act to the gift of life.”

3. They “do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity.”[1]

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