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1. Praise God for a gifted young man like Hough.
   Daring to live his faith beyond the prejudices and bigotries, a fine young Catholic man indeed.

   Posted By: TJ Lawson

2. "Committed Catholic" and simultaneously "gay activist" - sounds like an oxymoron the way your report puts it.
   
   A Catholic convert friend of mine, also an artist, who is homosexually oriented, does not define his identity exclusively by sexuality as "gay activists" do, and rejects the term because it suggests condoning of homosexual practice, which he believes, by reason and Church teaching, to be immoral.

   Posted By: Robert

3. Thanks for introducing me to Stephen Hough. I look forward to hearing him play in Sydney next week and to being nurtured by his writings and spirituality

   Posted By: Tony Robertson

4. Gay orientation is not sinful: it is gay sexual practice that is sinful.
   You can't possibly be a "committed Catholic" and practise homosexuality.

   Posted By: Anne Boyce

5. There are significant concerns regarding the treatise mentioned in the above report. The only criteria of permanent truth is how God sees it.
   
   If the writer of the treatise, does NOT have the Gift of Discernment of Spirits, or is not advised by those who do, then it will NOT be of God, and will be just more earth-bound human opinions.
   
   Also, if he bases the treatise on those who have the same views as himself, including friends and associates, then it will not be balanced and not representative of the Church. What is its purpose and who has commissioned him to write it.
   
   In the above report, the words in past tense “lived for many years” and the title of “It Is Not Good For Man To Be Alone” may indicate he is referring to homosexual practice, and if so, if he tries to justify the practice, then he going against what Christ clearly made known to St Paul in Romans 1:26-28 which is very specific and cannot be interpreted in any other way, and 1Corinthians 6:9-11.
   
   If he referring to the practice, then he is wrong to say that homosexuality is good, because both the OT and NT say it is against God’s purpose, so it canNOT be good, and no where does it infer that the practice is acceptable to God, even if two men or two women love each other, or are in a committed relationship
   

   Posted By: S. Spenson

6. The above report, saying that everything God created is good, canNOT be extrapolated to include wrong actions by human beings that God did NOT intend, eg crime, war etc. The human soul is created in the image of God, but the wrong actions are not. The term “structure of things” is nebulous and does not mean that something is in God's plan.
   
   There are many wrong human behaviours that could be said to be “in the structure of things”, and do exist, that are clearly NOT from God: vandalism, drug, alcohol and gambling addictions, road accidents from speed, deception, slander, greed, fraud, theft, violence, fighting, etc.
   
   The person in the report may want a debate from scratch, but that has to include both the first century, and the centuries in between, because the Church’s right teaching is based on what Christ made known to St Paul, which has been reaffirmed by the best in the Church for two thousand years.
   
   And there is no reason to dismiss Paul’s words as fundamentalism, especially Romans 1:26-28, because why would just one part of 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 be not valid, and the remainder valid, theft, slander, etc. Or those who say Paul was referring to some other different practice, because why would Christ withhold the truth from his Church for 2000 years, and just give it to those who disagree, who think they now have the mind of God, and that the Church doesn’t – that is very improbable.
   
   

   Posted By: S. Spenson

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