Homosexuality arguements

[puzzleannie]

Mijoy2:

True. But couldn’t it be argued that this is true because of the rejection from society and if there were more acceptance the unhappiness and health issues may diminish?

I . I work amongst a large population of homosexuals. Not sure why, maybe it’s the nature of my work. Throughout my life I have always been very understanding and supportive of the homosexual lifestyle (said from a purely secular view, I had no spiritual view). I never saw a hint of evil in the lifestyle. The individuals I know are highly respectable, warm, kind people who cry at sad movies and stories, are charitable, friendly and giving of themselves equal to those of the heterosexual community. Now, having learned what I have learned about my Faith, I find it very difficult to come to grips with.
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I also for many years worked and lived and had professional dealings with many homosexual men and women, have some enduring friendships in that group, and professionally came to know in great detail and depth, from them and from their advocacy organizations the truth about that “lifestyle” which is not monolithic and has many permutations and manifestations. Many of them are kind, productive, charitable, giving human beings. All of them evidence in their lives the destructiveness of their choices. the exigencies of choosing this pattern of sexual behavior are dire for personality, psychology, physical health, self-image and spirituality. In my opinion, and that of moral theologians I respect their culpability for activity that is immoral is lessened due to the nature of homosexual orientation–it is a disorder, but the objective immorality of the behavior is without doubt. Even without regard to teachings of major religions, which derive from centuries of observation as well as from Divine Revelation, the actual effects of embracing that “lifestyle” are demonstrably destructive. Their own literature, poetry and testimony is enough proof.

I have many friends and relatives who smoke, and drink, most of whom are good persons doing their best, most of whom I love dearly, but I suffer from the consequences of their choices to smoke.

To put it in its most selfish form, I am terribly drained by burying people close to me who have died of preventable smoking related cancer, and those who have died of preventable complications of HIV-=AIDS contracted through homosexual activity.

I have many heterosexual friends and relatives, who are good kind people, whom I love dearly, who persist in irregular sexual activities outside stable marriages, and the consequences to them, their families, their children and people who care for them are terrible. Selfishly again, I am tired of taking battered women for treatment only to see them return to abusive relationships, helping care for illegitimate children, and seeing the damage done to children of those I love by divorce and broken extra-marital relationships.

Sex outside the use and purpose ordained by the Creator is destructive of the individual, those participating, those close to them, and to society. If you don’t believe me, watch MTV, CNN, mainstream entertainment and news and make the obvious correlations between actions and consequences.

 

[Trelow]

I’d say its genetic in that every addiction id genetic.

We were all created with a gaping hole in ourselves that can only be completely filled by God.

Problem comes when we turn to alcohol, drugs, immoral sexual relationships, careers, etc. to fill that hole.

It’s how we are created, now many things may determine what we do, but ultimately it’s our choice. God or Sin.

Homosexuality is a biggie. (Just as any addiction) Because it’s idolatry. Anytime you replace God with something else you are up poop creek.

 

[Mijoy2]

puzzleannie:

Sex outside the use and purpose ordained by the Creator is destructive of the individual, those participating, those close to them, and to society. If you don’t believe me, watch MTV, CNN, mainstream entertainment and news and make the obvious correlations between actions and consequences.

Oh I do believe you. The realization of this fact went along way to my coming back to Faith. I think it takes some contimplating to begin to see the Truth in how sex outside of marriage is destructive. No sex outside of marriage, based on todays secular world, is an extreme concept that most do not accept.

Last night while my daughter was watching a popular television sitcom, there was a seen where the mother, walked in on her 19 year old daughter who was having sex with a married (but unhappily) man. The mother and daughter in this particular show have a good relationship with one another. The mother was, of course, upest over this. The mother went on to lecture the daughter on how it was wrong (cheating was the term used) to do this. The daughter, of course, rambled about how miserable the mans marriage was.

Well to make a long story short the lecture was going quite well until near the end when the mother stated something like “I had wished your first time (supposedly this was a first time) would be when you were in a retirement home (this is a comedy show)”. This was okay but then she went on to say, “and the man was single”. This blew me away a bit. She meant as opposed to married to someone else of course. But I guess my point of this little rambling session of mine here is that; she used the term single because THAT is when you should have your first sexual encouter. THAT is what is morally right. An easy way out of this would have been for her to say, “and the man was not married to someone else”. But she used the term single because there is not a smidgeon of moral accountability with being single. It IS the moral high ground. My daughters eyes were glued to this.

 

[JimG]

jennstall:

If that were true wouldn’t other genetic aberrations related to sexual reproduction have died out as well?

I don’t know. It just seems that if there were a “gay gene” as the cause, it could only get passed on by heterosexual reproduction.