The Scriptures and the Created Order part 2: A Response to Fr. Tobias Haller’s, “True Union”

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[Stand Firm] 30.11.07--Homosexual affection and desire certainly finds a home within a wider biblical context, but it is not the home Fr. Haller describes. It cannot be categorized within the realm of agape because the homosexual impulse is an inherently fallen one. It turns in on itself. Just as God’s human creatures chose to exchange the glory of the Creator for the worship of created things; things like themselves, so the homosexual impulse turns man or woman toward his or her own likeness and away from the complimentary other. The reason Paul turns directly from idolatry to the homosexual impulse in Romans 1 is that creation’s idolatrous turn toward the creature is mirrored in the man’s turn toward man and woman’s turn toward woman.