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Originally Posted by Swift
Actually, that still appears to be the stance if you read the Vatican release linked earlier. They don't actually call homosexuality a sin (the CNN headline is clickbait rubbish) but they actually state that anyone living outside of Church recognized wedlock (man + woman) is living in sin, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
So, you're right on what they say - being homosexual is not a sin, but acting on it is.
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It's this kind of contradictory, mental gymnastics stuff that made me leave the church. As George Carlin said, I was Catholic until I reached the age of reason. I just couldn't figure out how or why they pick and chose what they pick and chose from a book that is supposed to be the word of God. I also couldn't, as a 13 year old, figure out why no one else was asking the same questions I was. I couldn't rationalize my way back to faith.
It also struck me as stupid that a faith that stressed foundations in love were primary proponents of preventing it for "reasons". Oh, and the unbaptized babies going to Hell/Limbo wasn't too endearing, either.