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Six Causes of Homosexuality:
Cause 1) Idolatry: St. Paul tells us in Romans, that they "changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image [idol] made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
Cause 2) Demons: "I think that our wretched murderers [the demons] have the habit of besetting and seducing us poor creatures with sins contrary to nature..." - St. John Climacus
"But this the desire of [natural] intercourse effected and united the sexes to one another. This [natural] desire the devil having taken away, and having turned the course thereof into another fashion... For when the Devil saw that this desire it is, principally, which draws the sexes together, he was bent on cutting through the tie, so as to destroy the race..." - St. John Chrysostom
Cause 3) Wealth and Luxury: "The Sodomites having, through much luxury, fallen into uncleanness..." - Clement of Alexandria
"Oh, ye that were more senseless than irrational creatures, and more shameless than dogs! for in no case does such intercourse take place with them, but nature acknowledgeth her own limits. But ye have even made our race dishonored below things irrational, by such indignities inflicted upon and by each other. Whence then were these evils born? Of luxury; of not knowing God. For so soon as any have cast out the fear of Him, all that is good straightway goes to ruin." - St. John Chrysostom
"The Sodomites had fallen into those abominable passions, because they spent their time eating sumptuously." - St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite
“Dissipation, sensuality, gluttony and a dissolute, profligate life produce a passion-charged state of soul and impel it to unnatural actions." - St. Nikitas Stithatos
Cause 4) From false doctrines: "he [St. Paul] goes again to the fountain head of the evil [of homosexuality], namely, the impiety that comes of their doctrines, and this he says is a reward of that lawlessness." - St. John Chrysostom
Cause 5) From being abandoned by God: "But if you say, and whence came this intensity of lust? It was from the desertion of God and whence is the desertion of God? from the lawlessness of them that left Him; 'men with men working that which is unseemly.'" - St. John Chrysostom
Cause 6) Choice: In a general sense, St. Hieronymus (Jerome) writes, "We are all human and all indulgent to our own faults; and what our own will leads us to do we attribute to a necessity of nature."
Speaking specifically of homosexuality, St. John Chrysostom speaks of "deliberate choosers of such a life" and elsewhere states that "'they changed the natural use' (Rom. 1:26) and 'left the natural use of the female' (Rom. 1:27). For no one can say that it was by being hindered of legitimate intercourse that they came to this pass, or that it was from having no means to fulfil their desire that they were driven into this monstrous insanity. For the changing implies possession."
[This clearly shows those who choose to become homosexuals have the ability to practice "legitimate intercourse", they have the means to "fulfil their (natural) desire" but they rather, choose to change and leave what is natural.]
Thus, St. John Chrysostom clearly states, "they [homosexuals] had the means of [natural] gratification, and left that which they had, and went after another" ... They "dishonored that which was natural, [and] ran after that which was contrary to nature."