After the fall of Adam and Eve the sexes were different. Their existence anatomically and physically defined them as having one purpose, the procreation of the human race. As a result of this, the struggle of every Christian now is the restitution of that ancient beauty; the return to that glory when Adam was first created. This struggle must navigate through the change in the carnal appetite of man. The change from man’s fallen animal state takes place only through sanctifying his sexuality which resulted from the fall. 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said about the West: “It has lost the concept of a Supreme Being which restrained our passions. It has placed too much hope in political and social reforms. It has found now that it has been deprived of its most precious possession: its spiritual life.” 

Sodomy is nihilistic in its essence. Sodomy like all sexual sins tears at one’s conscience. Legalizing same-sex marriage has made Christians exiles in their own land. Christians find themselves back in the times of the Roman persecutions and so we must retreat to the catacombs of our faith. 

Fr. Constantine J. Simones, retired

Waterford