A Gay Darkness

This is a response to a dear peer's post which I just can't stop getting out of my head.

'They (homosexuals) say, "But we love each other!" What's loving about medically dangerous behavior? Love seeks the ultimate good of the loved one.' - Kendal Metcalfe quoting Frank Turek

HEED THE IGNORANT CLANGS OF BIGOTRY AS WE IRRATIONALLY DENY THE EXISTENCE OF LOVE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY GENUINE AND SINCERE!

Although you may perhaps consider me to be one of them, religious and conservative people often confuse me.

Bewilderment strikes me each time Christians openly profess their disdain towards homosexuals, bashing them unsympathetically for their so-called divergence from God's plan.

Homosexuality is, after all, involuntary. What man or woman would want to marry a person who would not be able to bring upon them any offspring? Why would a woman want to have a sexual relationship that is almost entirely dependent on prosthetics - where the mutual coalesce of flesh is virtually impossible? Surely people who take preference on such irregularities have something that is wrong with them to a psychological, even spiritual level.

Plenty research suggests that sexual preference is decided on that basis of a person's upbringing. Parental relationships, among the many things that shape a person's psyche, are prevalent in most cases of homosexuality. Traumatic experiences, and sexual abuse, are among the numerous things that contribute to deviations of sexual preference. Most importantly, after a certain age of maturity, sexual preference becomes of permanence.

Heartbreaking, isn’t it, how an unfortunate childhood can trail a person to their death? Sin is fused into the very core of a human soul that escape from it is impossible. Christianity condemns homosexuals who supposedly refuse to give up their fleshly sin. But how can Christians be so sure that homosexuality is escapable by mere devotion to Christ, when people who profess these things don’t even know how hard being gay is?

The subject of sexual rebirth is tricky. It’s a bit like sex change procedures; no matter how “female” a transgender man can become, a part of him – a part that is untouchable by medicine or therapy – will forever remain a man.

Ex-homosexuality is a myth. Those who profess to have been sexually converted are simply denying their sexual desires for the sake of sanctity. Complete liberation from sin is nonexistent - we are humans, after all. As normal and "heterosexual" as homosexuals can become, a the will always want what they have left – that hollowness and dissatisfaction in them that will never be contented by a normal sexual relationship.

Besides, after years of research and attempts to de-homosexualize gay men, psychologists have said that there are no "cures" for homosexuality.

This isn’t to say that I don’t believe homosexuality is a sin – I do. It is one that is so deep-seeded that it can never be completely removed, rather simply denied and suppressed. The legalization of gay marriage equates to the incubation of habitual sin.

Am I a biased hypocrite for sympathizing over homosexuals – which the bible deems as among the most immoral and perverse people to walk the face of this earth – while condemning the practitioners of pre-marital sex, something supposedly less perverse than homosexuality?

Homosexual people are generalized as effeminate, narcissitic, lustful, and perverted. True, many of them are, but aren't we all - heterosexuals and homosexuals - imperfect?

When you think about it, homosexuality is not voluntary, while fornication is. Homosexuals fornicate because marriage is impossible for them, while heterosexuals fornicate because they are unwilling to wait just a few years for marriage. Needless to say, both are sinful and ultimately result in death - what I view as wrong is how people approach these issues.

Why is it that the selfish, impatient, lustful animals are tolerated while those handicapped in sin - even celibate ones - are unloved and exiled?

The dreadful irony is that many of these gay bashers aren't even practitioners of abstinence.

Nobody is doing the right thing.

Homophobes and conservative Christians make life a living hell for gay people. Homosexuals are inculcated with fear and hopelessness as narrow-minded protesters declare the unfortunate fates of these people. A peer of mine posted a jaundiced remark on how immoral gay people are, without any viable solutions other than the complete rejection of these people.

Gay rights activists encourage this immorality, as nude men shamelessly parade in gay pride as they profess pride over the illness that plagues their people. Liberal churches admit their own defeat as they encourage gay marriage under the false idea that all love is sacred. - Gay love is very much real, true, but not so sanctified by God.

Lives are hard enough as it already is for gay people; don’t make it worse. The reality is that most of them are walking towards hell, with the world encouraging this. Compassionate truth has been eradicated! All that’s left is a violent reality or empathic lies. Can homosexual celibacy – the only way these people will ever find truth – be practiced when support and encouragement is nonexistent? In this lightless war against pitch-black darkness, where do you stand?