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        In order to establish the link between abortion and sodomy one must understand the essence of sodomy. The term sodomy is a take off from the warped lust portrayed in Genesis 19:4-5

        "Before they went to bed, all the townsmen of Sodom, both young and old--all the people to the last man--closed in on the house.  They called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them." "

        As horrendous as abortion (the murder of the most innocent of all human beings) is, sodomy is the far graver sin. Acts of sodomy produce no eternal spirits that have the opportunity to enter Heaven. With abortion there is an eternal spirit –produced at the instant of conception– who will have the opportunity to choose between good and evil in non corporeal¹ form and thus will be able to accept or reject eternal life.

        The practice of sodomy falls into three classifications, classical, practical, and failed:

1. Classical sodomy, the form commonly understood by most Old and New Testament Bible readers includes sexual activity between two persons of the same sex –whether male or female– or any sexual act between any human being and an animal (dog, sheep, donkey, monkey, etc.).
   1. "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." [Leviticus 20:13]
   2. "Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." [Romans 1:26-27]
   3. "The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day. Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire." [Jude 6,7]
   4. "Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God." [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]
   5. "Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death." [Exodus 22:19]
   6. "But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death." [Revelation 21:8]

2. Practical or inherent sodomy is in essence no different than classical sodomy. The initial command of God is foundational for arriving at an understanding of practical sodomy.
   God blessed them, saying:  "Be fertile and multiply;
   fill the earth² and subdue it." [Gn. 1:28 and 9:1,7]

           The essence of the command is procreation. The essence of the term sodomy then includes any use of the sexual faculty –by two humans or one human and an animal– that by act or intention precludes the bringing of new human life into existence. The use of the sexual faculty without being open to its intended result is contrary to the will of God who designed into human nature the very strong urge for relationships designed to produce human forms for occupancy by eternal spirits designated to share the magnificence of His existence. God, an intellectual being, designed compatible beings capable of both utilizing His creative capacity and sharing with Him in an intellectual manner.  (The concept should be clear that in both classical and practical sodomy the result is the same – use of one's sexuality faculty in a manner that is not open to pregnancy.)

           God created in order to have an uncountable number of intellectual beings to share eternal existence with Him. This was, is, and forever will be the whole point of every facet of creation. His desire is unalterable. Our choice is to share in building the Kingdom to its fullness according to His will or to be rejected for occupancy in His Kingdom.

           The necessity of intellectual life is foundational to all other considerations. To place limits on procreation is to limit the creative capacity of God who is Himself without limits. Without procreated intellectual life there is no reason for created existence. To use one's sexual faculty without acceptance of life as its natural consequence is condemnatory. While repentance is for a time available, no number of good deeds can ever take the place of life forever lost to God's Kingdom.

           Saint Paul expresses the importance of pregnancy as follows.

   "But she will be saved through motherhood,
   provided women persevere in faith and love
   and holiness, with self-control." [1 Tim. 2:15]
   (Motherhood occurs at conception)

           God not only refers to pregnancy as being a blessing for women, but has established His own version of Natural Family Planning that is intended to increase the probability of pregnancy. God ordered women's fertility cycle in such a fashion that in conjunction with required sexual abstinence the incidence of pregnancy would be at its greatest when copulation inevitably takes place. While there is no requirement to be married, –St. Paul comments that in single life one can be of greater service to God and His community [1Cor. 7:7, 32-34]– those who do marry should be mindful of the initial commandment given by God to humanity ("Be fertile and multiply.").
   

           The learning of self-control is importantly associated with the admonition against sexual activity during a woman's menstrual period and for a period of seven days. Seven days is the often used period of time for preparation, purification, and celebration. The following quotations are associated with menstrual impurity:

   • "When a woman has her menstrual flow, she shall be in a state of impurity for seven days. Anyone who touches her shall be unclean until evening." [Lv. 15:19]
   • "If a man dares to lie with her {during the period of menstrual uncleanness}, he contracts her impurity and shall be unclean for seven days; every bed on which he then lies also becomes unclean." [Lv. 15:24]
   • "If she becomes freed from her affliction, she shall wait seven days, and only then is she to be purified." [Lv. 15:28]
   • "You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is unclean from menstruation." [Lv. 18:19]
   • "If a man lies in sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period, both of them shall be cut off from their people, because they have laid bare the flowing fountain of her blood." [Lv. 20:18]

           "Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their conduct and deeds. In my sight their conduct was like the defilement of a menstruous woman. Therefore I poured out my fury upon them (because of the blood which they poured out on the ground, and because they defiled it with idols). I scattered them among the nations, dispersing them over foreign lands; according to their conduct and deeds I judged them." [Eze. 36:16-19]

           Sexual abstinence, as prescribed above, is God's method of birth control. God's interests are often opposite those of man. Sexual inactivity increases the sperm count in males, and, the period of required abstinence normally places the female into her period of fertility. Evidence now indicates that at this time women give off a pheromone (an imperceptible sexual scent which attracts males) and many women also enjoy a period of moderate elation which makes them more open to or desirous of sexual activity. ("According to one study, women increase their sexual desire and activity by 25% during a three-day period around ovulation. — Not only is a woman more likely to want sex at ovulation, but she is also likely to enjoy it more as well.")
   

           "Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he had relations with her, at a time when she was just purified after her monthly period. She then returned to her house. But the woman had conceived, and sent the information to David, "I am with child." [2 Sam. 11:4-5 ]

           When a male and a female are directly associated in a work environment, over a period of time, bodily rhythms governed by hormonal activity will open them up to promiscuity. During a woman's period of monthly fertility her hormones activate and make her more vulnerable to sexual advances. Men, lacking in sufficient self-control, are open to sexual inclinations and advances particularly if circumstances allow for intimacy. (Ref.: The secrets our body clocks reveal (Chap. 5), by Susan Perry – ISBN: 0-89256-315-X)

           The following are some of the specific acts that fall under the concept of sodomy:

   •         Sexual copulation using a condom, spermicide, cervical cap, or any material device or chemical agent which is intended to inhibit or destroy the sperm before it reaches the egg, or to otherwise prevent it from making contact with the egg /ovum.
   •         Intentionally abstaining from sex during a woman's fertile period, that is, the use of the woman's natural rhythms with the desired intent of avoiding pregnancy – the contraceptive mentality.  {When there is grave / serious (unselfish) reason for using the woman's natural rhythms to avoid pregnancy for a temporary or indeterminate period of time the Catholic Church makes exceptions for this and only this form of pregnancy spacing (Humanae Vitae §10.4; §16.2).}  {Note: Humanae Vitae is no longer considered as being a valid teaching since in recent years I have come to understand that Paul VI did not morally occupy the office of Peter (pope).  Thus anything that had been promulgated by him was invalid.}
     
     
     The following passage of Sacred Scripture should always be kept in mind.
     "Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life
     in this world will preserve it for eternal life." [John 12:25]
     
   •         Sexual copulation following any temporary or permanent form of desired sterilization including, but not limited to, tubal ligation, vasectomy, or an unnecessary castration or hysterectomy. NOTE:  Tubal ligations and vasectomies can often be reversed and when financially able a moral attempt to do so must be made.
   •         Withdrawal prior to ejaculation, mutual masturbation (ejaculation outside of the vagina), and oral sex.

3. Failed sodomy. Abortion is commonly the product of failed sodomy.
   • Abortion, the worst possible type of murder as it takes a totally innocent human life, is less of a sin than sodomy which totally rejects the creation of human life.

           The following acts are all offensive to God. Acts that are unintentional or considered as compulsive in nature (readily stimulated or habitualized) and a sincere attempt is made to avoid further occurrences of commission may be considered as being inadvertent sins and readily forgivable when properly confessed. Those sins that could have more readily been avoided and are knowingly committed are referred to as advertent sins. These sins require a much more difficult change of heart. Sins that are committed defiantly (with ill will or contempt) have the gravest of consequences and the likelihood of proper repentance is limited. [Lv. 4,5; Nm. 15:30]

   1. masturbation - a member of either sex who stimulates one's own genitalia with the desire to produce orgasm (sexual satisfaction).
   2. fornication - copulation between an unmarried male and an unmarried female that is open to procreation.
   3. adultery - copulation that is open to procreation where either the male or the female, or both, is married to another party.
   4. sodomy - sexual activity between two beings desirous of producing orgasm that by act or intent avoids natural procreation. Such activity can be between two males, two females, a male and a female, or between a human and an animal. Sodomy is a graver sin than murder. – Unless there is life there can be no murder.
   5. fetish - an unnatural focus upon a part of a person or an object that can lead to orgasm. - an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object of fixation to the extent that it may interfere with complete sexual expression.
   6. transvestite - a person who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex especially for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification.
   7. transsexual - a person with a psychological urge to belong to the opposite sex that may be carried out to the point of undergoing surgery to modify the sex organs to mimic the opposite sex.
   • heterosexuality - orientation toward persons of the opposite sex. Heterosexual activity must always be with self-control. Copulation must always be limited to activity with one's spouse. Heterosexual thoughts must be constrained. Non rejected adulterous thoughts are mortally sinful. "But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has
     already committed adultery with her in his heart." [Mt. 5:28]
   • homosexuality - orientation toward persons of the same sex. Homosexual orientation as with heterosexual orientation is of itself not a sin unless it is self-willed. Homosexual activity is always gravely sinful and falls under the general term sodomy. Homosexual thoughts must be avoided or restricted as much as possible or sin is committed.

           Apart from within a moral marriage all forms of sensually stimulating conduct is conducive to promoting sexual activity and should be avoided by those who say they believe in God and are desirous of entering Heaven. Immodest dress, prolonged or inappropriate physical contact (petting, necking, kissing, hand holding, etc.), under some circumstances prolonged proximity, and enticing expressions are all to be avoided.

        Many believe that the world is or is becoming overpopulated. Many citizens and governments favor population control. Promotion of population control is against God's expressed command to be fertile and multiply. Proponents of population control are, at the very least, intellectual sodomites. Anyone who favors birth control by tampering with reproductive processes is just as guilty of sodomy as those who commit direct acts of sodomy. Chapter five of Matthew's Gospel makes it clear that knowledgeable association with sin is also sin. {Mt. 5:21-22, 28, 31, 34]

        One who has faith in God trusts in God. The universe is enormous and unquestionably has millions of habitable planets to occupy. When the time is right and people are living according to the will of God science will progress as required.

Father David C. Trosch
June 13, 2000
Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua

¹     The source or origin of angelic beings.

        Some of the content of this document may be considered as speculative theology (theology in development). But, it should be understood that it opposes no known formal doctrine of Catholic Christians or other Biblically based churches.

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