3 On sexuality: Homosexuality is lacking in love only to the extent it is based on the principle of exclusion. ²Everybody should love everybody. ³It is wrong to deny the beauty of some souls because of body structures of which you are afraid. ⁴This is essentially an unhealthy attempt to limit fear, but fear cannot be limited, just as love cannot have limits.

4 Heterosexual attitudes can be similarly distorted, but do contain a more natural potential. ²Sex relations are intended for having children. ³You have misunderstood sex, because you regard it as a way of establishing human contact for yourself. ⁴This has led to body-image problems. ⁵Children are miracles in their own right. ⁶They already have the gift of life, and their parents provide them with the opportunity to express it.

5 Nothing physical, mental, or spiritual should be used selfishly. ²The pleasure from using anything should come from utilizing it for God’s will. ³You should live so that God is free to arrange temporary human constellations as He [It] sees fit. ⁴If you have not had children, do not interpret this in terms of guilt. ⁵Many children who are already here need spiritual parents. ⁶The poor are always with us, and many who are born have not been reborn.

6 Human birth, maturation, and development is a microcosmic representation of a much larger process of creation and development of abilities. ²It is subject to error as long as the real purpose of free will is misunderstood and misdirected. ³The real function of parents is to be wiser than their children in this respect, and to teach them accordingly.

— ACIM [CE T-1.18.3-6]

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