by Karlo Broussard | Sep 13, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
What can we say to someone who refuses to acknowledge nature’s blueprint for sexual sanity? Someone who, like the character Skipper from the 2014 movie Madagascar Penguins, says, “You know what? I reject nature.” I answer that we should reverence nature’s...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
If the Catholic Church is casting a negative light on itself by opposing something that the culture has accepted as a norm, then should the Catholic Church give up its efforts in opposing the homosexual lifestyle? This is a question that a caller posed to me...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 11, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
Defenders of traditional marriage argue that redefining marriage to include same-sex unions undermines marital permanency (lifelong union) and exclusivity (only one spouse). If biological sex doesn’t matter, they argue, then why should duration and number? This is...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 24, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
In my previous article, we saw that there is such a thing as sexual sanity, an objective reality with which we need to live in accord in order to be sexually sane. Regardless of someone’s personal motive for engaging in sexual activity, procreation is its natural end....
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 9, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
Sanity is to see what is (reality) and live in accord with it. If your grandfather thinks leprechauns are jumping in his butter dish and he gives them his butter knife to use as a springboard, then his sanity is defective. He mistakes a hallucination for what is real...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 3, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are acts of “grave depravity” and are “intrinsically disordered” because they contradict the natural law (CCC 2357). The natural law, which is a moral law built into the nature of man discoverable by...
