Homosexual Acts are immoral and should not be licensed

NEW DELHI, July 03, 2009, 10.00 Hrs (CBCI News):

Government of India seems to be thinking of decriminalizing homosexuality by repealing section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal laws of a country defend the minimum morals of a society. Although decriminalizing homosexuality does not make it moral, people in general may think thereby that it as morally permissible. The government should not give the impression that homosexuality is licensed.

There are individuals whether man or woman with sexual orientation towards their own sex which is acquired by circumstances and a small section of them have sex inclination which is innate. In both cases it is a pathological condition, of which the acquired one can be reversed by therapeutic methods. The society at large with the help of religions and governments must help homosexuals to bring themselves back into their normalcy and integrate themselves into family life. Homosexuals should not be hated or ostracised from the community or family, simply because they have such tendency. Instead, the community which is moral must deal with them with sympathy and understanding. The society must find means and methods to help these people.

However this does not that mean homosexual acts are moral; these acts are intrinsically evil. The so-called same sex marriage is immoral in any context; there is not even sex act or marriage in it. Homosexual right is a misnomer, just as there is no right for the minority of people who are kleptomaniacs or serial killers who they say are have innate tendencies to steal or kill . Even all heterosexual people have no right to marry since impotent, insane and persons with incurable dangerous diseases cannot marry.

Giving the impression that homosexuality is moral will bring in sexual anarchy including child abuse in society. The Indian culture which is founded on self-discipline and asceticism should not be allowed to disintegrate by opening the doors to sexual licentiousness which is already rampant in our consumer culture.

Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil
Major Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Church and
President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India