For anyone who bases their lifestyle and their assumed right to judge other people who may act and think differently on traditional Christian teachings, might I point out that in the Summa Theologica (the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas, Theologian and doctor of the church, intended to be an instructional guide for theology students and literate laity), in explaining what man and nature are, at one point says that man is separate from animals because, unlike humans, animals have no freewill. Man is above nature because of that.
We may be with nature, but we are not of it.
We are unnatural beings.
Now, then, the Summa (that’s Summa as Summa Theologica is commonly known and not a style of Japanese wrestling) places us out side of plants and animals, so it seems odd that this book which has influenced the Traditional Catholic Church thinking since the 1200s and before any Protestant Reformation which, accept it or not, used the beliefs and doctrines that grew from the Summa and an integral part of their education to both support their sides and explain away the other.
If man is above and, therefore, not a part of nature, how can we condemn anyone by claiming they are going against nature. You can only go against something intrinsic to you or of which you are a part, and Aquinas seems to think that is not nature.
For those who claim the behaviors of others goes against natural law, he also offered,
“Now different men are naturally inclined to different things; some to the desire of pleasures, others to the desire of honors, and other men to other things. Therefore, there is not one natural law for all.”
So back off that claim especially when Homosexuality comes up or Transgender and you want to play the traditional religious beliefs card by reciting only what others have told you is the truth using their claim of its being true as proof of its veracity, when the Summa also supports the medieval belief that rabbits can change their sex according to their needs, and that is why there are so many rabbits.
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