Reaction grows to gay student's expulsion. That's right, a student is expelled simply for being gay not engaging in any form of sexual activity. Truly awful. I understand they don't approve or condone homosexuality but this? Is there no room for someone who is gay and chaste? Why not? What if someone is an alcoholic but sober? Would you kick them out too? I'll never understand.

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Paul Smith Jr. said…
There's a school of thought in some Protestant circles that a homosexual orientation is, in and of itself, sinful. (As Catholics, we don't believe that. It's actions that are sinful, while temptations are just part of the fallen human condition.)

I ran across this once when a Protestant friend of mine was arguing that homosexual orientation is wrong. I forced him off this point of view by discussing the difference between being sexually attracted to women and committing "adultery of the heart." The first is part of our makeup, the second is what Jesus comdemned.
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