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**hotelhyatt** · 04-12-2010, 07:47 PM

There seems to be two questions we are circling around here. One is the question of keeping ourselves morally pure while living in the world. The other related question regards our responsibility to our society as a Christian.

I would put the first question differently: I think it is about the extent to which we may be participating in the sins of others, and I would like to know more about that at the level of Mrs Wilkinson (the lady involved in refusing to accommodate the homosexual couple).

Nothwithstanding what I said in my last post, I wonder if there is an argument that homosexual conduct is different from, say, the relations between an unmarried couple in so far as the Church considers the former to be unnatural and disordered while the latter, though fornication from the Church's point of view, is natural, and so not such a difficulty. (Mind you, it's not so very long ago that unmarried couples had to pose as 'Mr & Mrs Jones'!)

04-12-2010, 07:47 PM	#47
hotelhyatt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	There seems to be two questions we are circling around here. One is the question of keeping ourselves morally pure while living in the world. The other related question regards our responsibility to our society as a Christian. I would put the first question differently: I think it is about the extent to which we may be participating in the sins of others, and I would like to know more about that at the level of Mrs Wilkinson (the lady involved in refusing to accommodate the homosexual couple). Nothwithstanding what I said in my last post, I wonder if there is an argument that homosexual conduct is different from, say, the relations between an unmarried couple in so far as the Church considers the former to be unnatural and disordered while the latter, though fornication from the Church's point of view, is natural, and so not such a difficulty. (Mind you, it's not so very long ago that unmarried couples had to pose as 'Mr & Mrs Jones'!)
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