I took a walk tonight, went the usual 4-mile route after the kids were in bed and I could walk stroller-free and headphones blasting. It is a very balmy, humid night out there with a dense haze and a heavy blanket of cricket and locust chirping. Just the kind of night I need to clear my mind. Along one of the town's border roads I saw 5-6 deer standing in the field across from me. Very beautiful moment as I stood watching them watching me. No one else around. It made me realize how much we all need to take a moment to be separated from the world, to take a step away and unwind. Especially in today's go fast, have now, can't wait culture it's important to slow down and be thankful for the simple things in life.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Church's teaching on homosexuality (nothing like taking a 90degree turn in topics, eh?) vs. that of the contemporary world. We hear all about the agendas of the homosexual lobby...equal rights, "same-sex marriage", homophobia, special status for the LGTB community, etc. I believe that people are getting so hammered with the radical gay lobby that people are beginning to lose sight of the underlying issue, or maybe they've never given this topic a second thought.
The Church, of course, teaches that same-sex relations are inherently wrong, due to the disordered nature of these acts. Our sexuality is given to us to use with dignity and towards the intended aim of sex: unity and procreation. You can't have one without the other for a chaste union. But, this is common argument material. What has really been on my mind lately is the nature of the arguments that gay/lesbian/transgendered/bisexual promoters use. Rather than approach these acts from a point of human well-being and personhood, as does the traditional understanding of man and woman, they approach these "lifestyles" from a purely sexual perspective.
For the first time in history, men and women are being defined by their sexual preference. Not their accomplishments, rank, status, or most importantly their existence as individuals made in God's image...but by the ways in which they choose to act out their sexual appetites. Using this same logic of classifying a person by their drives would be like asking for special status for vegetarian lasagna lovers. In the lasagna eaters world vegetarian lasagna lovers are a minority and should be given special treatment, right? Or, to hit closer to home...why not statutory rapists? That 25 year old guy really loved the 15 year old girl he was dating...people may look down on his actions but he can't help the way he feels, right? Shouldn't he be given the right to act the way he pleases?
Now, I'm not promoting the incarceration of people who, for whatever reason, feel attracted to persons of the same sex. Nor am I trying to put them on the level of a criminal. Every person, without exception, should be shown the same love that Christ shows us every day and be allowed free will. What I am promoting, however, is a logical and reasonable critique of the arguments that GLBT lobbyists use. People should not be classified by their sexual preference. Men and women have been created thus...man and woman, a binary species like every other, but with a reasoning soul and the ability to see beyond simple drives. God created them male and female, right? Last time I checked he didn't create them gay, bisexual, vegetarisagnan, or statudaterapist, right? Isn't it time we started seeing beyond sex and into the will of God?
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