Question of Truth

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Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Closeted queers in the Vatican; Materialism of pro-gays; 1 A Question of Truth; The fortune and misfortune of gay Christians; Truth; Truth and tradition; Truth and authority; Overcoming scepticism; 2 'Homosexuality'; 'Homosexuality', physical and psychological; The inadequacy of the CDF's definition of homosexuality; Homosexual person; Homosexual desire and intensionality; The intensionality of desire; The intensionality of condemnation; 3 The Bible Against Homosexuality? â#x80;#x93; I: Introduction and Old Testament Texts; Introduction. Use of the Bible in discussing homosexualityThe logic of condemnation; The concept of homosexuality in the Bible?; Genesis 19:1â#x80;#x93;11; Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; Back to Genesis 19; Cortese and the men of Sodom; What about the women?; 4 The Bible Against Homosexuality? â#x80;#x93; II: New Testament Texts and Summary; Romans 1; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:10; Further remarks; 5 The Bible for Heterosexuality?; Genesis 1; Lawler, Boyle and May; HP; The image of God; Genesis 2; Difficulties in the standard view; An alternative view; 6 The Bible, Love and Experience; Can gays love? Can gays love without struggling against being gay?Is homosexuality a tendency ordered towards an intrinsic moral evil?; 7 Aquinas, Natural Law and Sexual Natures; 'Nature'; Thomas Aquinas; Sex, nature and nurture; Natural sex, natural language; The Bible again; 8 Homosexuality, Purpose and Happiness; Purpose; The emblematic importance of penile-vaginal intercourse; The purpose of human acts; Homosexual acts and homosexual happiness; 9 Some Modern Arguments; Germain Grisez; Meaning; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography