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Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
On what basis is this claim made?
After reading what I posted ...... what do you think is the basis on which this claim is made ?

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
After reading what I posted ...... what do you think is the basis on which this claim is made ?
TRADITION!

Do I win a prize?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
TRADITION!

Do I win a prize?
Again one of your annoying jokes ......

You're wrong and it proves you haven't read the whole of the elaborate quotes I gave from the Cathechismus ..... but who cares, as long as you're popular with the crowd ......

BDN: "Do I win a prize?"

Yes, of course you do ..... for the most annoying and most spoiled young man on RHP trying to put himself in the limelight by trying to be funny .....

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
Again one of your annoying jokes ......

You're wrong and it proves you haven't read the whole of the elaborate quotes I gave from the Cathechismus ..... but who cares, as long as you're popular with the crowd ......

BDN: "Do I win a prize?"

Yes, of course you do ..... for the most annoying and most spoiled young man on RHP trying to put himself in the limelight by trying to be funny .....
"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." Followed by a slew of verbiage supporting this tautological reasoning.

Same story as with women priests. Can't do it. Why? Tradition...

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." Followed by a slew of verbiage supporting this tautological reasoning.

Same story as with women priests. Can't do it. Why? Tradition...
I repeat: ....... it proves you haven't read the whole of the elaborate quotes I gave .......


BdN: "Same story as with women priests. Can't do it. Why? Tradition ..."

Oh brother, ..... it is no use trying if people simply refuse to understand. Reread my posts, genius.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
After reading what I posted ...... what do you think is the basis on which this claim is made ?
I didn't see anything that would necessarily lead one to conclude that sex between two men for unitive purposes is any less "ordered" or "genuine" than sex between a man and woman who are unable to have children. Evidently you see something, so why don't you just say it? I mean, I can guess, but to have a proper discussion both parties need to voice their position.

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Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
On what basis is this claim made?
As usual, this normative view of ivanhoe's is informed by unsupported and conventionalized theo-teleological blather. So, basically it's made on the basis of nothing that should concern us.

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Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
I didn't see anything that would necessarily lead one to conclude that sex between two men for unitive purposes is any less "ordered" or "genuine" than sex between a man and woman who are unable to have children. Evidently you see something, so why don't you just say it? I mean, I can guess, but to have a proper discussion both parties need to voice their position.
You must have missed the notion of "sexual complementarity".

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Originally posted by LemonJello
As usual, this normative view of ivanhoe's is informed by unsupported and conventionalized theo-teleological blather. So, basically it's made on the basis of nothing that should concern us.
What an arrogant and self satisfied comment ......

Us ? Why don't you speak for yourself ? Are you the leader of a crowd ?

Maybe you can explain what you mean instead of throwing around fancy terms with which you try to impress the same crowd you imagine you are speaking for.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
You must have missed the notion of "sexual complementarity".
The descriptive fact that they do not form a "sexual complementarity" is not what is interesting about your claim in question. Yes, ivanhoe, a gay couple is not a straight couple.

What's interesting, and what I would like to see you support, is in regards to the "genuine affective...complementarity" -- or rather the putative lack thereof.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
You must have missed the notion of "sexual complementarity".
I saw it, but realistically I found it difficult to take much away from it other than "We see it as against the natural law because we see sex between a man and a woman as natural and sex between a man and a man as unnatural." What did you take away from it?

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
You must have missed the notion of "sexual complementarity".
I saw it, but realistically I found it difficult to take much away from it other than "We see it as against the natural law because we see sex between a man and a woman as natural and sex between a man and a man as unnatural." What did you take away from it?

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
What an arrogant and self satisfied comment ......

Us ? Why don't you speak for yourself ? Are you the leader of a crowd ?

Maybe you can explain what you mean instead of throwing around fancy terms with which you try to impress the same crowd you imagine you are speaking for.
The sources that you copy and paste don't argue for their content. They just list some descriptive claims and also some normative claims that are theological and teleological in nature. And they also just appear to rely on some version of the naturalistic fallacy to link the two. What's your support for this stuff?

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Originally posted by LemonJello
The sources that you copy and paste don't argue for their content. They just list some descriptive claims and also some normative claims that are theological and teleological in nature. And they also just appear to rely on some version of the naturalistic fallacy to link the two.
" ..... appear to rely .... "

Show me ..... instead of simply suggesting it.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
" ..... appear to rely .... "

Show me ..... instead of simply suggesting it.
Either there are no arguments presented of which to speak; or the arguments there presented are either circular or reliant on the naturalistic fallacy. Consider for example the first section:

"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."

A conclusion here is that homosexual acts are categorically wrong. What is this conclusion based on? Is it based on the descriptive premises presented that precede it (that tradition has always declared them categorically wrong; and that homosexual acts cannot support procreation)? If so, then that's merely the naturalistic fallacy where you simply take something descriptive and confuse it with something normative. Or is the conclusion based on the normative premises that precede it? Since a premise that precedes the conclusion states blanketly that homosexual acts are contrary to the natural (moral) law, well that's either just circular and question begging; or it's again just descriptive in that you're saying these acts go against God's intentions, which lends itself again to the naturalistic fallacy (hard to tell but I think it's just question begging based on the way you later present 'the natural moral law'😉.

Seriously, get some support for your views, ivanhoe.