Adam and Steve (what the Bible says about homosexuality)
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The Importance of Sexual Desire in Roman Catholicism
The idea of celibacy developed within some Greek philosophical thought that sexual desire was a problem. In first Corinthians and in Thessalonians, we have this idea it's better to be celibate but if you can't hack celibacy, go ahead and get married. However, sex within marriage should be without passion because that's for the dirty, dirty Gentiles. And so sex is really prophylactic within Paul's sexual ethic, but he would prefer people just didn't have it.
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