sexual ethics
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Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?
In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading
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Artificial Insemination: St. Augustine’s Ideal Sex Act?
The Catholic magisterium considers artificial insemination to be wrong, even in the case of a wife being artificially inseminated by her husband. As Donum Vitae argues, “artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning
If we listen to the stories of all women, not just those for whom natural family planning works in the way that the magisterium says that it does, we will see that natural family planning is not always good. In… Continue reading
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It’s Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve
Often, the fact that, in Scripture, the first human beings were a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) and that this man and woman had a sexual relationship is assumed to be clear and irrefutable evidence that homosexuality is wrong.… Continue reading
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Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons
Although the magisterium of the Catholic church insists that violence against homosexuals is always wrong, it also depicts homosexuals as a grave threat to society: homosexual unions do “violence” to children raised within these unions[1], homosexuals are a threat to… Continue reading
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Protected: “Deus Caritas Est” and the Queerness of God’s Love
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Whoops: A Correction about Church Teaching on Condoms
A correction: it seems as though my previous description of the pope’s statement on condoms as “good news” was inaccurate–primarily because it turns out it is not “news” at all. While the pope himself has led us to believe that… Continue reading
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Pope Benedict Changes His Mind on Condoms?
In a soon to be released book entitled, “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times,” Pope Benedict has apparently said, “the Catholic church is not fundamentally against the use of condoms” especially when… Continue reading