Wonderful Gift and Awesome Responsibility

The Catholic Church explains that we are given a universal vocation to love and be loved and that sexuality is a part our personality. Through sexuality we "experience our relatedness to self, others, the world and even God." Sexuality is gift that we should treasure and respect. The Church also explains that sexuality is an awesome responsibility entrusted to the steward and can be a challenge seeing as there is potential for misuse. Sexuality has many dimensions including physical, emotional, and spiritual. St. Paul says that True love is patient and kind, not self-seeking. The Church says that chastity, but not suppression of sexual feelings, is the most effective way to remain responsible and appropriate. The Church says that sex is an action with both unitive and procreative dimensions. Sex is both an extension of marriage and biologically used to procreate within marriage. Outside of marriage bishops conclude that sex is morally wrong. Although the Church recognizes the challenges a single person may have regarding chastity,the Church believes that sex should only be within marriage. The Church also believes that, while homosexuals can not chose their orientation, they should not have intercourse. I struggle to understand why the Church accepts that some people have a homosexual orientation, but condemn them acting upon their orientation. However, I believe it is good that the church talks openly about the positive attributes of having sex within marriage rather than condemn sexuality all together or depicting it as dirty.