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The “natural order” involves might over right, oppression and murder in multiple species, including Homo Sapiens, so if I were you I’d find another argument :-)

- biologist[/quote]

If Natural Law is not a legitimate source of church doctrine, then you have invalidated today's pronouncement, because its central claim is that homosexual sex is "not ordered to the Creator’s plan."  This is a natural law argument, and you just refuted natural law.[/quote]

Natural Law is not the same as biological nature.  You’re confusing concepts and did not engage with the PP’s point.[/quote]

St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224/25–1274) propounded an influential systematization, maintaining that, though the eternal law of divine reason is unknowable to us in its perfection as it exists in God’s mind, it is known to us in part not only by revelation but also by the operations of our reason. The law of nature, which is “nothing else than the participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,” thus comprises those precepts that humankind is able to formulate—namely, the preservation of one’s own good, [u]the fulfillment of “those inclinations which nature has taught to all animals,[/u]” and the pursuit of the knowledge of God. Human law must be the particular application of natural law.[/quote]

This is not a complete and accurate articulation of Aquinas or natural law.  And you’re not even attempting to defend the notion that all animalistic urge are good or should be encouraged, which undercuts your position.[/quote]

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