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What have past and present Church leaders taught about why some people are tempted by same-sex attraction?
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
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The Church does not have an official position on the causes for same-sex attraction. Many Church leaders have indicated that we do not know the cause(s), and that this is a question for science.
Many leaders have also indicated that discerning a cause for this temptation is, in a sense, immaterial—given that one has such a temptation, what ought one to do about it?
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