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7. What have you learned from Benjie’s Sharing today? He is an Pilipino , and he said that the hard time with family, in family gathering, in , Christmas cousin said that he should give Mr. Benjie as dress or doll as Christmas gift , and make him feel embarrassed and at that period of time he pretend to chasing girl and play sporting , and trying to get rid of confusion. In this identity confusion, he knows that it makes him hard feeling. As compare with my homosexual friend, it is a similar experience that they share with me , and I have found the internet, and it is related to a Cass Identity model, Benjie case are in stage 1, identity confusion stage. I also learnt that the families are important factor that affect the teenager or child behavior, as Mr. Benjie, trying to pretend to being a masculine such as playing basketball and casing the …show more content…

Why do you think Homosexuality is considered a Sin by the Church; a Crime by some societies including Hong Kong until 1991 and a mental disorder until 1973 by the DSM? Should it have remained a disorder and/ or a crime? Why or why …show more content…

Since it is about heterosexual sex between angels and humans,. Also in Jude 7 written that Sodom and Gomorrah "acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust." Ezekiel says that Sodom committed "abominable things" (Ezek. 16:50), which could refer to homosexual and heterosexual acts of sin. Lot even offered his two virgin daughters in place of his guests, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferring homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen. 19:8–9). Ezekiel does allude to a lack of hospitality in saying that Sodom "did not aid the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49). So homosexual acts and a lack of hospitality both contributed to the destruction of Sodom, with the former being the far greater sin, the "abominable thing" that set off God’s wrath. (Direct quote from St John Catholic

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