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« on: January 26, 2021, 11:39:51 AM »

Does Catholic doctrine still assert that same sex attraction is "disordered?" I have used the right term there haven't I?  I appreciate their doctrine preaches love and compassion for the "disordered," but to be honest I find that rather condescending. That said, I don't really mind if others find me "disordered," as long as they do not advocate changing/using the law to punish me for it.

Catholicism doesn't use the word "disordered" in the sense it is casually or medically used, which implies some mental or psychological defect. The Catholic position is that SSA is objectively disordered because acting on it can only ever be sinful in any circumstance, unlike other sexual attractions which can, in proper context, not be sinful (other attractions may be "intrinsically disordered" such as a man's attraction to a married woman who isn't his wife, but this isn't "objectively disordered" as the sinfulness is context-dependent).

This position does not imply that the person experiencing SSA is "disordered" as that would be contrary to the Catholic definition of "disordered" which is expressly about the ends of an action. A person who experiences SSA is no more "disordered" than someone who experiences the temptation to commit any other sin.
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