My Faith outwieghs familial ties therefore he would be forced to stop his mental sickness and become straight or he would not be welcomed in my house.

-Trad Guy

Simply a question.

By "came out" do you mean was born? Or do you mean made an announcement?

I would pray very much for his soul.

If your child told you they were a practicing ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ, you should tell them that what they doing is an objective evil and if not repented, will send them to hell.

If your child refuses, then disown them while at the same time praying for them to renounce their errors.

I agree with BTNYC -- why the modern lingo? Can't we be more specific?

When you say "come out as gαy", do you mean admit that they've been a practicing ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ?  Or admit that they've had such attractions?

I think my response would be different.

Practicing sodomy is obviously a grievous mortal sin. Having such attractions, while serious, is still just a temptation.

You wouldn't want to disown a son/daughter who just admits to having temptations/tendencies.

However, in either case you wouldn't want to mince words. Sodomy is against the sixth commandment to a grievous degree, and it's one of the sins crying out to heaven for vengeance. It leads to hell, despair, and unhappiness even in this life.

There is no "happy ending" for a gαy person. You can't find a nice trad Catholic gαy to marry, and live a nice life of sacrifice with your spouse, raising a family, growing old together, etc. You can't marry someone of the same sex, and you wouldn't be able to put yourself in a position of temptation like that, since sodomy is grievously sinful. The "best case scenario" is a life of celibacy (singleness).

Even the devils are disgusted with the act itself (though they do urge people to commit any and all sins). Once they succeed in getting a human to sin this way, they actually leave in disgust! My mother read this in one of the TAN Books she was proofreading years ago -- I don't know which one. I believe it though -- it makes sense. For one thing, the devils understand pride, anger, despair, envy, and many other sins. But sins of the flesh they can't relate to at all. They never had animal bodies like we do!

The TAN book to which Matthew refers is called The Catholic Church and ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity. The quote is from St Catherine of Siena, relaying words spoken by Our Lord Himself:

Saint Catherine of Siena, a religious mystic of the 14th century, relays words of Our Lord Jesus Christ about the vice against nature, which contaminated part of the clergy in her time. Referring to sacred ministers, He says: “They not only fail from resisting this frailty [of fallen human nature] . . . but do even worse as they commit the cursed sin against nature. Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this not only causes Me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these miserable creatures have chosen as their lords. For Me, this sin against nature is so abominable that, for it alone, five cities were submersed, by virtue of the judgment of My Divine Justice, which could no longer bear them. . . . It is disagreeable to the demons, not because evil displeases them and they find pleasure in good, but because their nature is angelic and thus is repulsed upon seeing such an enormous sin being committed. It is true that it is the demon who hits the sinner with the poisoned arrow of lust, but when a man carries out such a sinful act, the demon leaves.”

Also, I'd like to commend Matthew for his very laudably clear and Catholic response. Hopefully this will settle the matter and will obviate the need (if ever there was one) for a third thread asking this same question, with some posters being pounced upon for answers that may be somewhat lacking in balance but nonetheless not lacking in holy Catholic zeal and revulsion for this Sin against Nature which cries to Heaven for Vengeance.

-BTNYC

I agree with BTNYC -- why the modern lingo? Can't we be more specific?

When you say "come out as gαy", do you mean admit that they've been a practicing ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ?  Or admit that they've had such attractions?

I think my response would be different.

Practicing sodomy is obviously a grievous mortal sin. Having such attractions, while serious, is still just a temptation.

You wouldn't want to disown a son/daughter who just admits to having temptations/tendencies.

However, in either case you wouldn't want to mince words. Sodomy is against the sixth commandment to a grievous degree, and it's one of the sins crying out to heaven for vengeance. It leads to hell, despair, and unhappiness even in this life.

There is no "happy ending" for a gαy person. You can't find a nice trad Catholic gαy to marry, and live a nice life of sacrifice with your spouse, raising a family, growing old together, etc. You can't marry someone of the same sex, and you wouldn't be able to put yourself in a position of temptation like that, since sodomy is grievously sinful. The "best case scenario" is a life of celibacy (singleness).

Even the devils are disgusted with the act itself (though they do urge people to commit any and all sins). Once they succeed in getting a human to sin this way, they actually leave in disgust! My mother read this in one of the TAN Books she was proofreading years ago -- I don't know which one. I believe it though -- it makes sense. For one thing, the devils understand pride, anger, despair, envy, and many other sins. But sins of the flesh they can't relate to at all. They never had animal bodies like we do!

There is such a thing as gαy marriage, though. I would let them get married.