I’m not saying desire itself is a choice....but following a desire is. I’d really like a $250,000 Ferrari, but I hate the thought of stealing, and maybe going to jail worse—so I remain not a car thief. (Does this mean though, I have a car thief orientation?)
Since there is no, or really very little, social stigma to homosexual behavior anymore, and, our media is constantly drumming the drum that it’s just a fine and dandy gay lifestyle—more people are tempted to think following their twisted desire that way will make them happier than not following it. People always have the tendency to think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence—and if someone is unhappy in a marriage they often look elsewhere—and for a few, that’s way across the fence... Demonstrably though, the propaganda that people are happy doing homosexuality, is just that, lying propaganda—but some very unhappy people believe it. So the bishop lives with his boyfriend—and later commits himself to an alcoholic treatment center multiple times. Sexual behavior is of the deepest desire—and affect, I’m not taking that lightly, still I have confidence that people can, and do change. People live in dark denial who think change is impossible.
Even without change in desire, do we as a people encourage destructive behavior? Ask a recovering alcoholic if they still desire to drink—most will admit yes—that doesn’t mean though they feed that destructive desire by giving into it. And it doesn’t mean as a society we encourage people to just give into such destructive desires—civilization itself is the regulation of individual desires’ fulfillment by force of law.
I agree 100%. Great post.
The issue isn't desire; the issue is ACTION. Which is why this "gay rights" garbage IS garbage--it's based on the idea that one's actions should somehow be ensconced in the law as sacred because...well, because this group CHOOSES to take those actions, and that's it.
Excellent posts.