Order and Disorder (part I)

The natural order for men to is be attracted to women.

It is disordered for men to be attracted to men.

How can be made more clear than that? Lust and masturbation are disordered as well.

This is all from the constant teaching of the Church and paragraph 2351 and following.

Popular opinion may classify same sex attraction, lust, and masturbation as all choices that one can make, but all sin starts with a choice.

What the Church teaches (and what I believe) is that same sex attraction is an objective disorder to human nature.

By human nature I do not mean merely occurring in nature because, of course, all types of physical and psychological disorders occur in the natural world.

I do not support discrimination against homosexuals or people afflicted with other disorders. It was this desire not to discriminate that made people of all types, including the very influential American Psychiatric Association in 1973, go silent on the question of it being a disorder.

Today advocacy of homosexuality and it's thematic lifestyle name, gay, is being shouted from the streets, rooftops, and several cable channels. Anyone speaking to it as a disorder is marginalized, called hateful, and silenced. It's a paradox that gay advocacy still has campaigns that present the inverse of the world as it is now -- that one speaking out favorably on homosexuality risks being silenced -- it's called The Day of Silence just in case you forgot what April 26 is for.