Please do not denigrate this thread. I intend this as serious/honest/trying to understand human nature discussion.
I have known many people who are quite happy living a gay lifestyle. I have a very close family member who is bi-sexual. I know several lesbian couples .
I am not gay - but I am absolutely not homophobic. I have never had desire to live that lifestyle - but am I correct in assuming that most gay people feel a 'natural attraction' to partners of the same sex? If that is true - then how can society, religion, condemn them for that? They are only doing what is inborn [or perhaps learned?] and comes natural to them.
If you believe in God - how can you take position that these 'created beings', obviously created with desires that differ from those of us who are heterosexual, should be declared unfit, out of order, or perverted? Did not God make them that way - whether by personal touch or by genetic predisposition?
This thread was prompted by my reaction to a caller on a radio show on my way home from work today. She vehemently announced that she had called her children's school and demanded that a book on Gay lifestyle [I do not know what book or if it was graphic or not] by removed from the school library. She was clearly self-sure that God would agree with her position on this matter. Of course most Christians quote a couple of texts in the Bible to support the idea that such lifestyle is absolutely an abomination. Yet those same Christians ignore or gloss over perverted sexual relations mentioned there between siblings/parents and children etc.
I don't know what prompted this thread other than that. For the first time in my life I began to think just how unfairly some people are treated in this matter. I don't support or deny 'gay rights'. To me - people are people. I have gay friends who have come to my home on occasion. I go to theirs. I don't often even think of them as gay. I just think of them as people I love. I embrace them as souls seeking to find the best way in life they know how - and finding happiness in an alternate lifestyle from what many consider 'normal'.
I suppose the California same-sex marriage situation has also prompted me to to think about this more lately. If I had any gay friends who wanted to go to California to marry, I would fly out with them and be proud to witness the ceremony. The key in that sentence is friends - not gay.
Well - feel free to chime in if you like. Please don't be disingenuous or unkind. There is enough of that in the world. But if anyone can comment in a way to shed light on what it means to be gay , I would love to hear those comments. I know there are many fine gay persons on this forum. Some may be in the closet yet. Others are open.
This is not 'Gay liberation day' or anything. [As far as I know] I just find myself disgusted with the old me at times - the one who judged everyone for everything. I am so happy to have changed. For had I not - I would have missed the panorama of color and beauty that comes from accepting rather than condemning others.
Likely this seems off-the-wall. And it is a bit. Just something on my mind today.
Jeff