[sitetest]

This is a longish article, but well worth the read. I'm not entirely sure I completely agree with it, but the author, in my view, is clearly on to something.

This is an open thread. Have at it, one and all.

[sitetest]

Dear Mrs. Don-o,

This one’s for you.

A while back, you posted an article, something about the possibility of the positive giftness of gayness, in the context of orthodox Catholic theology and practice.

I think that this article has something to say in that conversation.

sitetest

[miss marmelstein]

Yes, homosexuality is a 19th century invention. And we’re stuck with it.

[Tax-chick]

I read this in the hard copy when it came out. I thought it was persuasive in many ways. It’s heavy reading, though ... I got the idea that the author is a philosophy graduate student!

[circlecity]

“This new concept [of heterosexuality], gussied up in a mangled mix of impressive-sounding dead languages, gave old orthodoxies a new and vibrant lease on life by suggesting, in authoritative tones, that science had effectively pronounced them natural, inevitable, and innate.”

Nonsense. 2000 years ago the Apostle Paul declared that homosexuality was unnatural and thus by inference declared hetrosexuality normal and natural. All of which is pretty self evident.

[Travis McGee]

[gusopol3]

He can’t get past the anatomy , so he doesn’t mention it ( please excuse me if he does, I didn’t labor over reading it ,though I read it all). His lumping it with heterosexual activities such as adultery, pornography, masturbation, etc, which I agree are just as sinful, overlooks the fact that none of these are the basis of a poitical movement and are sooner or later recognized as shameful.

[skeeter]

In summary - homosexuality isn't a species of human being, its a deviant behavior practiced by a small group of human beings.

The day we began identifying people as homo and heterosexuals (in an attempt to explain & isolate the behavior) we put the two on the road to equivalence.

[onedoug]

Dennis Prager, Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

[Albion Wilde]

This guy writes like a nasal-droning Eurodweeb advertising a luxury car.

[GraceG]

So basically the gist of this article is that we took the sin and the sinner and gave them a “Tribe” to live in because the Secularo naturalists demanded that in order to fit their cetergorical world view?

[GraceG]

[ For “heterosexuals” in particular, getting close to a friend of the same sex ends up seeming perverse, and being moved by his or her beauty feels queer. To avoid being mistaken for gay, these days many self-proclaimed straight people—men especially—settle for superficial associations with their comrades and reserve the sort of costly intimacy that once characterized such chaste same-sex relationships for their romantic partners alone. Their ostensibly normal sexual orientation cheats them out of an essential aspect of human flourishing: deep friendship. ]

I agree 1000% on this, It is hard for two same sex friends to be friends these days without other people thinking they are “Teh G’hey” even if there is no sex/sodomy involved at all.

[Sergio]

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