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The Catholic Archdiocese of Minneapolis/St. Paul today published an article calling homosexuality a "disorder," once again showing how far behind modern thinking the Church is (homosexuality was removed from the DSM, the official definition of mental disorders, in 1973). The article, by Father Michael Schmitz, goes on to state that sex "is ordered toward two things: bonding the couple and bringing forth life." He then uses this rather odd definition to state that if either of these elements is missing, then the relationship is disordered:

"Anything that directly violates either the bonding or the possibility of life is a disordered use of the sexual act (as well as use of the other person)."

In other words, if you are too old to have children, sterile, gay, or simply choose not to procreate, the Catholic Church says you shouldn't be having sex. (We've heard the "old people shouldn't be sexual" thing recently, of course, when Massachusetts tried to legislate against senior porn.)

If that wasn't odd enough, the article goes on to equate gay sex with incest.  In a people-in-stained-glass-houses-shouldn't-throw-stones moment, the articles asks, "Would the introduction of sex into a parent-adult child relationship add to the relationship or destroy it?"  Ah yes, Father, it would.  But what does that have to do with a loving relationship between two unrelated consenting adults? [the catholic spirit]