Аннотация
Professor Dei's point of departure in his article is his statement that "[m]ost Christian denominations differentiate homosexual orientation from homosexual behaviour".The author goes on to say that for these denominations being homosexual is not considered sinful but "the practice of homosexuality" is indeed sinful.The thesis, as well as the conclusion of the article is that "[s]exual orientation, inclination, attraction, and sexual acts, behaviors, or practices are acutely connected.In this vein, it becomes incongruent for a moral stance to condemn one but accept the other."(page 3).It is true that, in Christian ethics, unconsented desires are never sinful.Prescriptions such as "though shall not covet thy neighbour's wife" or simply "you shall not hate" prohibit conscious decisions to direct our actions towards something which is considered wrong or an act of mental rejoicing but which must go beyond mere involuntary feelings or sensations.For instance, it would just be "disorderly" to feel hatred but it would be sinful to entertain those same feelings of hatred without struggling to keep them out of one's mind.It would also be obviously sinful to act upon those feelings of hatred and