Homosexuality In Catholic Religion

Homosexuality has been shamefully denounced in Catholic religion over time ever since St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas’ ideas shaped the views of the Catholic church. Today these religious teachings express how homosexuality is not in any way, part of God’s plan for marriage and family instead it is seen as sinfully going against Natural Law. Catholics lack the realization that people’s sexual desires do not in any biological way, shape or form change a person’s overall morals determining if they should be scrutinized or accepted. Catholic homosexuality beliefs are demandingly strict and tend to over criticize basic religious intentions of love and acceptance. Homosexual participants are deserving of support, faith and love despite what

With that being said they both believe only unions who are able to produce children should be blessed as recognizable marriages. In the knowing basics of natural law being as God created the world in a certain way for specific purposes of procreation and moral law as pertaining to the way things ought to be has to do with the way humans ought to act; they stand together on this notion of not fully supporting homosexual marriages. Also, considering the fact they both support the idea of “churches should not talk constantly about homosexuality, instead they should be discussed contextually” (BeMiller). Meaning in spite of supporting or opposing beliefs and stand points, the topic of accepting homosexuality does not have to be the only desired topic of discussion in the church. So even though one Pope is more at odds with homosexuality than the other, they both do have some similar viewpoints that trail back from the traditional teachings, that in modern days is now seen as going too

This has to do with tracing back to the root of all ethics, pertaining to where morality takes place in the principals of right and wrong views towards the homosexual unions in catholic churches. Whether these interpersonal beliefs derive from natural law theories or virtue theories, they make a vast difference. The thought pertaining to natural law gets determined by the way humans find themselves subjected to a moral law portrayed by society, or in the Catholics eyes, by God. The manifest of virtues on the other hand, outlines what kind of people we are and what our actions make us- furthermore a state of being. Thomas Aquinas is often seen by people as either a natural law theologian or a virtue theologian due to the fact that he claims that natural law ethics and virtue ethics confluence each other- which is not the case since instead they oppose each other by being fragmented into detached systematic approaches. According to Rodgers (1996) “natural law theorists argue that such practices are unnatural and are therefore immoral; while virtue theorists evaluate lesbian and gay practices more positively since these practices, especially in marriage like situations are integral to relationships in which the partners exhibit such virtues as fidelity, love and justice” (pg. 31). When determining the acceptance of a homosexual union the opinion gets based off of either a natural law view