“And we shall see how we have become a nation without God,” (Armstrong). Today's society has called for the revival and renewal of numerous laws imposed by men and women who think they understand what God considers right and sinful. Older adult populations view homosexuality as a sin, where one person cannot love another of the same sex without being damned to Hell, while younger populations address the need for love and happiness among all groups of people. St. Thomas Aquinas states these ideas and what God wants based on his theories. Aquinas's ultimate goal was to achieve ultimate happiness in the form of a divine afterlife with his God, and he generated theories and models for others to follow to achieve this goal. In this article I intend to explain Aquinas's view on homosexuality compared to that of the Bible using the Summa Theologiae, the theory of natural laws and the theory of divine command. It seems like not a day goes by without a new law being passed or a new thought being conceived about homosexuality in the world and the morality behind it. Gay marriage and homosexual oppression can be compared to other cultures and ethnic groups that have been distanced from society based on their beliefs and practices. There are many arguments for and against gay marriage, some of which are due to ignorance and other arguments are actually debatable with genuine concerns behind them. St. Thomas Aquinas did not look so closely at the homosexual individual but rather at the divine laws that surround him. For example, in the Summa Theologiae, one of the statements is the Proof of Causality (Feser 63). Thomas Aquinas states that everything God created has a purpose. Looking at this......middle of paper......without harboring discrimination against another based on sexual preference, skin color, or cultural practices for we are all His children. If homosexuality were destroying the family values of love that had been preset by men who now try to dictate what love truly captivates, then we would see a lot more of the world and nation in worse chaos than they already are. If the ultimate goal is the happiness of the deity, shouldn't one try to make oneself happy and then expand that joy and virtue to others? Isn't this what God wants from His creations, to speak His word and recommend His teachings to others regardless of what society claims? In this article I have explained the topic of homosexuality based on the Bible and the theories of St. Thomas Aquinas from the Summa Theologiae, the Theory of Natural Laws and the Divine Command Theory.
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