Good afternoon, all,
I’d like to bring up two things. First is this article indicating the governments punishment of the Holy Roman Catholic Church for standing by her values:
cnsnews.com/news/article/catholic-bishops-lose-25-million-hhs-grant-help-human-trafficking-victims-apparently
I’d like to see a discussion of this article among us bring this thread back to the OP. The gist of the article is that the Department of HHS is denying a $2.5 million grant to the Church. The Church uses the grant to help victims of sex-trafficking.
The second thing is I would like to address the thought, “I can’t help doing this because I’m born this way”.
OK, the desire to procreate does not occur in individuals until puberty. So, we aren’t born with sexual desires.
However, we are born with a deep seated desire to survive, to live, psychologically described as the “Fight/flight” reflex.
There are times when this primeval reflex has prompted me to rearrange some man’s nose. It’s a very powerful urge. However, my Christian self-restraint kept me from doing that, and the truth and love of God in my heart led me in peacefully resolving the issue.
On the other hand, the “Fight/flight” reflex strongly urges individuals to run away from over powering danger. Nevertheless, the military, law enforcement and fire fighters are trained to over come their “Fight/flight” reflex and walk into or stand fast and face danger. A battalion of enemy soldiers dug in on a hill, shooting at your battalion with rifles, machine guns and mortar rounds present an overpowering enemy. But soldiers were trained to walk up that hill in a spread out formation (so that not as many of them would be killed as if they were all bunched together) and riot the enemy from that hill; I know, that’s what we were trained to do at Camp Pendleton when I was a young Marine. To have given in to the “flight” part of that powerful reflex and fled would have been an intolerable act of cowardice.
As well, police officers are trained to take cover and shoot back, instead of running away, when a criminal is shooting at them. And then, of all things, firefighters are trained to take a fire hose and walk into a burning building, facing and overcoming mankind’s most primal fear, that of fire.
Now, I would like to point out, that since people can overcome the powerful primal “Fight/flight” reflex, then there is no excuse for not overcoming the pubescent and later sexual drive with self restraint.
Healing is not the issue, when it comes to any sexual behavior. Self control is the issue for hetero, bi, homo or auto sexual behavior. It can be done.
Those people who don’t want to control themselves and instead live celibate lives, have no excuse for their lack of self control. For any sexuality, it is solely a matter of choice: choose self restraint or choose to surrender to our carnal nature (whatever flavor of carnality that may be).
Even as a young man, my fear of veneral disease (Fight/flight) kept me celibate and often kept me chaste. I was engaged to two different virgin young women. Each one was still virgin when our engagement ended. It was not fear that prompted that in me, but respect for my parents’ teachings, God’s teachings and for the young women themselves.
So, any sexuality can be overcome. I’m not going to get started on that. There was no talk of sexuality in America when I was raised, and it was a much better America for that.
In conlusion, since love of God, and since God’s spirit of Truth, since respect and since training can help us live peaceful lives, our “Fight/flight” reflex notwithstanding, no other powerful urge has any excuse to lead us astray, including
any sexuality.
God loves all of you, lurkers, too,
Don.
Let’s get down to business…