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Fornication with women is a celibacy vow, but otherwise encouraged for the laity to reproduce and be fruitful and multiply. Homosexuality is, as mentioned, viewed as an evil tendency or sin, rather than something to be encouraged, and thus is more serious on its own.

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Yes, this is what Catholics would say (with optional gay men = pedos dog whistles - see your sibling comment). It’s an explicitly homophobic rationale that depends on the assumption that being gay is worse than being straight. So while it sheds some light on the internal logic of Catholic homophobia, it’s hardly likely to reassure anyone who is worried that gay men are being singled out for unfair treatment. Rather, it explains exactly why this is occurring.

Wow, what is this? You know about how many Catholics view pedophilia as equivalent to homosexuality and you had the gall to accuse me of being inflammatory in my other comment. You do have an agenda.

I was referring to this comment from a Catholic, which explicitly connects gay men with pedophilia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35084663 Of course not all Catholics think this way, which is why I added the word 'optional'. None of this was in reference to you.

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