Homosexual acts are immoral and should not be licensed

(July 6, 2009) The head of India’s Catholic bishops has warned that last week’s ruling by an Indian court decriminalizing homosexuality should not be interpreted as making same sex practices morally permissible. “Although decriminalizing homosexuality does not make it moral, people in general may think thereby that it as morally permissible,” said Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, CBCI. He was referring to Delhi High Court’s ruling on Thursday that treating consensual gay sex between adults as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution. However, the ruling, the first of its kind in India, is not binding outside New Delhi. Cardinal Vithayathil urged for sympathy and understanding for homosexuals saying they should not be hated or ostracised from the community or family, simply because they have such tendency. “However,” Cardinal Vithayathil cautioned that “this does not 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,” the CBCI president said. “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,” Cardinal Vithayathil added.