Homosexuality: The Church Program This essay conveys the Church's 2,000-year-old traditional teaching on homosexuality, considers other related information, then states this that is available to allow homosexuality the homosexual man or woman must be inactive and abstain from homosexual acts - which is the Twelve Step Method. Homosexuality refers to relationships between men, or between women, who experience exclusive or predominant sexual attraction towards people of the same sex. It has taken very different forms over the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Based on Sacred Scripture, which always presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, the Tradition of the Church has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered". They are against natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine emotional and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. The number of men and women who have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. They must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Any sign of unfair discrimination against them must be avoided. These people are called to carry out the will of God in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite the difficulties they may encounter due to their condition to the sacrifice of the Cross of the Lord. Homosexual people are called to chastity. With the virtues of self-mastery that educate to interior freedom, sometimes with the support of a disinterested friendship, with prayer and sacramental grace, they can and must gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection. Abandonment, Healing, Growth and Transformation Along with the Rosary, Mass, Eucharist and Reconciliation, the Twelve Step Method is recommended for healing and spiritual growth. The first step: we admitted that we were helpless in the face of our condition, that our lives had become unmanageable. Who wants to admit that we are helpless or that our lives are unmanageable? But the truth is that we don't come to such a program unless we realize that something is wrong; something is missing; something is wrong. We will do anything but look within. It gets worse. When all else fails, we are ready to take the first step. We admit that we are powerless in the face of these emotions: we feel defeated. This is now the end of one phase of our life and the beginning of another.