The church believes that, in the order of creation, man and woman are designed to need each other’s complementary traits and to enter into a mutual relationship so as to give life to children. That is why homosexual practices cannot be approved by the Church. Christians owe all persons respect and love, however, regardless of their sexual orientation because all people are respected and loved by God. [2358-2359]
There is no man on earth who is not descended from a union of a mother and a father. Therefore it is a painful experience for many homosexually orientated people that they do not feel erotically attracted to the opposite sex and necessarily miss out on the physical fruitfulness of the union between man and women according to human nature and the divine order of creation. Nevertheless, God often leads souls to himself along unusual paths: a lack, a loss, or a wound-if accepted and affirmed-can become a springboard for throwing oneself into the arms of God: the God who brings good out of everything and whose greatness can be discovered in redemption even more than in creation.
