Is Homosexuality Sin?

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the church to be Ordained Priests. It was not until the mid to late 1960’s that women were

permitted to attend divinity school and studied seminary classes that prepared them for

ordination. “Years after Vatican II, theologians, canon lawyers, and biblical critics all

interrogated the tradition and found no persuasive reason why woman should not be

ordained…women enrolled in divinity schools and studied at seminaries in astonishingly

large numbers…and so were prepared intellectually and psychologically for

ordination…Catholic women…had vocations to be priests-intersected with a crises in the

priesthood itself: with fewer men being ordained and many leaving the priesthood to

marry, there seemed to be a real need to consider women’s ordination” (p680 ). But

eventually they decided against the ordination of women with no real explanation except

that it has been the tradition of the church since the beginning.



Men want to continue to rule the church with their ideas of patriarchy such as no ordained

women priests, and no homosexuals are sons or daughters of God. The Christian church

believes that homosexuality is a choice that people make in order to defy the word of

God. Although some people have other ideas about what homosexuality really is.

Elizabeth R. Moberly, author of “Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic“, says that she

doesn’t think that homosexuality is wrong. She says that homosexuality is just a phase

that everyone goes through and you have to act out all of your homosexual desires before

you can truly be heterosexual. Therefore she believes that you cannot condemn someone

for being homosexual because everyone has homosexual desires, some are just stronger



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desires than others (Moberly). Others have proof that you cannot choose your sexual

preference; it would be like choosing your skin...