Post by foolishwisdom on Oct 31, 2011 14:50:37 GMT -5
...because the devil makes them that way.
www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13929
Frankly, I find this pathetic, to believe that homosexuality is so unnatural and against "God's handiwork", that it takes supernatural effects so powerful, only the devil himself is capable of giving a damn. (Not a pun)
I also don't find this view any better. For one thing: The Devil was involved, which makes homosexuality even more "eviller" then usual.
parents who think their kids make the "choice" to become homosexual are generally put to "therapy", or kicked out. I don't want to imagine what those same parents'll do to their kids if they believe they were influenced by the Devil even before they were born.
Since the Devil is involved, then kids'll be subjected to exorcists, and have the devil beaten out of them...maybe literally.
More kids may commit suicide: It's bad enough your attraction to the same-sex is unwanted in society, but the fact your attractions are caused by the Devil can't be good for your psyche.
Now I'm just ranting, but if this view is taken to heart to already paranoid folks, I can imagine things getting much worse...
Edit: Fixed a typo
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He has retracted his statement: www.truthwinsout.org/news/2011/11/19804/
The most recent and most comprehensive discussion of this research is found in a book published earlier this year by a scientist who also happens to be a gay-rights advocate. Even though it discounts other environmental factors that other scientists believe also may play a role, Simon LeVay's publication, "Gay, Straight and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Attraction" is worth the read.
LeVay is not interested in the "who" question and describes same-sex attraction as just a variation among other human inclinations. Catholics do not have the luxury of being materialists. We look for ultimate explanations that transcend the strictly physical world and that stretch beyond our limited ability to mold and reshape reality as we know it. Disruptive imbalances in nature that thwart encoded processes point to supernatural actors who, unlike God, do not have the good of persons at heart.
In other words, the scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil. Any time natural disasters occur, we as people of faith look back to Scripture's account of those angels who rebelled and fell from grace. In their anger against God, these malcontents prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. They continue to do all they can to mar, distort and destroy God's handiwork.
Therefore, whenever natural causes disturb otherwise typical biological development, leading to the personally unchosen beginnings of same-sex attraction, the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God. Applying this aspect of Catholic belief to interpret the scientific data makes more sense because it does not place God in the awkward position of blessing two mutually incompatible realities -- sexual difference and same-sex attraction.
LeVay is not interested in the "who" question and describes same-sex attraction as just a variation among other human inclinations. Catholics do not have the luxury of being materialists. We look for ultimate explanations that transcend the strictly physical world and that stretch beyond our limited ability to mold and reshape reality as we know it. Disruptive imbalances in nature that thwart encoded processes point to supernatural actors who, unlike God, do not have the good of persons at heart.
In other words, the scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil. Any time natural disasters occur, we as people of faith look back to Scripture's account of those angels who rebelled and fell from grace. In their anger against God, these malcontents prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. They continue to do all they can to mar, distort and destroy God's handiwork.
Therefore, whenever natural causes disturb otherwise typical biological development, leading to the personally unchosen beginnings of same-sex attraction, the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God. Applying this aspect of Catholic belief to interpret the scientific data makes more sense because it does not place God in the awkward position of blessing two mutually incompatible realities -- sexual difference and same-sex attraction.
www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13929
Frankly, I find this pathetic, to believe that homosexuality is so unnatural and against "God's handiwork", that it takes supernatural effects so powerful, only the devil himself is capable of giving a damn. (Not a pun)
I also don't find this view any better. For one thing: The Devil was involved, which makes homosexuality even more "eviller" then usual.
parents who think their kids make the "choice" to become homosexual are generally put to "therapy", or kicked out. I don't want to imagine what those same parents'll do to their kids if they believe they were influenced by the Devil even before they were born.
Since the Devil is involved, then kids'll be subjected to exorcists, and have the devil beaten out of them...maybe literally.
More kids may commit suicide: It's bad enough your attraction to the same-sex is unwanted in society, but the fact your attractions are caused by the Devil can't be good for your psyche.
Now I'm just ranting, but if this view is taken to heart to already paranoid folks, I can imagine things getting much worse...
Edit: Fixed a typo
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He has retracted his statement: www.truthwinsout.org/news/2011/11/19804/