[SoConPubbie]

Half-right. In the vast majority of cases, homosexuality is an early unconscious response to emotional damage and/or sexual abuse. The choice comes when, upon recognizing the compulsion, a person decides to combat it or embrace it, but dismissing it entirely as a choice is simplistic, callous and unproductive.

Sorry, but I'll take the biblical explanation over anything else every day of the week.

Call me simplistic, callous, and unproductive all day long, God's definition, not mine, not yours, is what is important.

[william clark]

Sorry, but I'll take the biblical explanation over anything else every day of the week.

Call me simplistic, callous, and unproductive all day long, God's definition, not mine, not yours, is what is important.

What makes you think that the Biblical view is contradictory to a rational understanding of their condition? You've created a straw argument there. God condemns as sin the activity of homosexuality, not the fact that one is so tempted. He doesn't indicate what may trigger the desire.

Hurling scripture at homosexuals with no desire to understand them as people with different struggles than yours will certainly succeed in driving them away from a consideration of the gospel and their need for repentance and grace. Sure, it's easier to stand on your side of the line, condemn and cheerlead, but that lack of engagement is precisely why the so-called gay rights movement has made such progress in our culture over the last few decades.

If I speak with the tongues of men and angels...