Does God condemn Homosexuals? The Church allows sterile couples to marry even though they may not procreate. Then why not allow homosexual marriages?

God does not condemn homosexuals. And the Church does not address them as homosexuals but as ‘persons with same sex attraction’. The Church understands that no persons should be defined by their sexual orientation or impulses. The Church respects and regards their dignity as children of God. Church offers compassion in their trials and calls them to live a pure life – a life of chastity. Chastity is accepting and living out the will of God for one’s sexuality in the given vocation. 

God does condemn sin. Sin is condemned because sin deprives man of the glorious eternal plan that God has for him. God’s plan for man is that he should share in God’s own eternal life, in other words – heaven. God desires that everyone of his children be saved and enter into heaven. Thats why the Church appeals to all God’s children to shun sin and strive for holiness.

Church does not bless marriages between persons with same sex attraction because there cannot be valid marriages between two men or two woman. Such marriages are contrary to God’s original plan. Such unions do not lead to what marriage stands for – union and procreation. Union means being able to love the other by making a sincere gift of self to the other. if a person is incapable of receiving the gift the other is initiating, there is no union.  So for a valid sexual union, the persons must be complementary in nature. That is to say, man and woman. Same sex unions are neither unitive nor procreative. Even in the case of same sex couples adopting a child, the child is denied the right to have both the biological parents, also the right to have a father and a mother.

Marriage was God’s idea. It was God who instituted marriage. Man or the Church cannot alter God’s original plan for the sacrament of marriage. Catechism of the Catholic Church states in paragraph 2357 that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. While demanding that Church should recognise same sex marriages, what we demand is Church’s approval of the sinful sexual act/union and their desire to live in mortal sin. How can the mother Church do or allow anything that eternally destroys her children?

This unnatural sexual act is not a sexual union but an asexual disunion. The anal opening does not function as a sexual organ rather as an excretory organ. Same sex act is two people ‘using each other’ for the sole purpose of pleasure.  Pleasure is seldom the object of the authentic sexual Union but only the God-given reward and encouragement for the couples to come together in the marital embrace.

If Church allows infertile couples to get married, it is on the basis that they are able to enter into a valid conjugal act in a way that is open to life. If God wills to give them a child the couple are not incapable of receiving it. 

Also refer CCC on homosexuality – CCC 2357, 58, 59