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nunnington wrote:

Moses de la Montagne wrote:

archibald wrote:Whilst I inevitably have difficulty not joining a thread where sex is the topic, I do wonder what the point is in dredging the opinions of some superstitious medieval baldy guy for any useful or enlightening material, bar the fun of seeing a confused mind expressed in writing.

I'd say it's useful because Aquinas' popularity has seen some improvement in Catholic circles in the past few years. Here in the U.S., "traditional Catholicism" is trendy (at least, among those stalwarts who remain Catholic despite the pedophilia scandals). Along with this trend comes an Aquinas revival. Edward Feser, for example, who wrote a book purporting to refute the so-called "New Atheism," is a big-time Thomist.

There is definitely a Thomist revival. I think that Feser and his associates regularly criticize homosexuality on the grounds of natural law, i.e. that sex should be both procreative and 'unitive'. But then Feser argues that lying is always wrong, even in the usual examples where it seems the right thing to do, e.g. lying to Nazis about hidden Jews, and so on. So it seems very unnatural to me.