Natural Law on Sexual Ethics: Homosexuality

Natural Law: See's right and wrong as fixed things. Don't change according to the situation or the possible result. Linked to an eternal law created to help humans flourish. Judging what is right or wrong involves reason. Reason leads us towards doing good.

Aquinas says reason reveals what primary precepts are good: protecting life, ensuring reproduction, education and loving/worshipping God.

Natural Law: Homosexuality is absolutely wrong - does not support Aquinas' precepts - not good for sustaining a flourishing human society. Homosexual sex may feel good - it is an apparent good, not a real good.

Aquinas in Summa Theologica: Saw sex as wrong at times, if 'the act of its nature is incompatible with the sex act', giving 4 examples: **********, masturbation, homosexuality and where the…