How can the Church encourage people who engage in homosexual behavior to be celibate and live chastely?
Morrison: The Church can do all single people a favor by encouraging them, whether or not they live with same-sex attractions, to develop deeper and stronger relationships and friendships that don’t involve sex. So many people today, and not just the young, are confused about what genuine friendship is and how important it is to have emotional intimacy in our lives. The Church instructs single men and women to live chastely, but she does not instruct us to live in isolation. The Church needs to help educate people that emotionally and intimately satisfying lives can be had without sexual activity. Q: What advice do you have for others who have same-sex attractions? Morrison: Don’t think that your same-sex attractions must, per se, define your life. The human person is too magnificently complex to be boiled down to the label “I am a gay man” or “I am a lesbian.” Particularly if you are young and have not acted out sexually, don’t believe that you will necessarily experience the same deg
