HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS: XVI TRUMPS APA WITH ONE ...

... of the best takes on alleged innate homosexual tendency in the Vatican's recently leaked "Doomsday Doc."

Here is how Diognes of Catholic World New's Off the Record Blog sums up the Vatican's position on "gay from birth" ...

The Instruction tacitly dismisses the tendentious claims that homosexuality is innate, or unchangeable, or changeable only in rare circumstances. While it acknowledges the disorder can be deep-seated in some persons, it maintains that it may also be just an adolescent hang-up one can leave behind. Here the Church's moral wisdom rescues her from the errors of politicized academic fashion. To treat adult homosexuality (except in rare cases) as a self-indulgent prolongation of juvenile weakness and infatuation may rattle some gay ideologues, but it's more realistic and more charitable than the standard APA account. In summary form, the Church is saying, "For the love of Christ, knock-off the pansy act and grow up." [CRIB emphasis]

I love that last line, why can't I hit a note like that? It won't make a whit of difference to the 1.2% homosexual population, or their brain dead supporters, but you have to admit this is an excellent summary.

HT: Roman Catholic Blog

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