Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2008

Until 1973, Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder

(Note: Can be seen as biased -- these are just opinions. Everyone is equal.)

This is a very interesting phenomena. People were treated for homosexual tendencies before the problem was medically accepted as permissible. It was not socially accepted as permissible then, and its debatable if it is acceptable even now.

I think homosexuality is wrong, but I also believe people are in control of their own lives and lifestyles. I think people are entitled to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't impose upon someone else's liberties or right to chose. I think there should be some sort of an amendment on how individuals living alternative lifestyles are accommodated. I think we should develop some type of a civil union where some of the basic rights of married individuals are allowed, but I think this a delicate allowance.

Marriage is what will save our country from turmoil and I believe marriage should be kept pure and loving. Gay marriages should not have children involved because it imposes on someone else's liberty. The fact someone is gay is natural. They have their rights and liberties to either get help and follow the teachings of Christ, or to deny that they have a weakness and live in sin. Whatever they choose, it is ok. It is their life.

It sounds harsh, I know. This is not justification, but everyone lives in sin in a way. We are all trying to do our best in life. We try harder at points and we slack off at points. Everyone has weaknesses and imperfections that cause us to struggle at times in our lives. Homosexual tendencies, or same-sex weaknesses, are just one of the many different faults we can have. At this point, I know I'm making it sound like God is mean. He sends us here to struggle and sometimes lose to our frailties, but I think He had a bigger picture in mind. I think we are subjected to these weaknesses for our good, as a test. Just as you struggle and sometimes fail at tests in school, God tests us in life with our individual, hard-wired weaknesses. He gives us study guides, reading assignments, and pop quizzes to prepare us just like your teachers in school would do.

To bring this in and simplify it, I don't think being gay is wrong. I think acting on your same-sex weaknesses and doing nothing to live a better life is wrong. But that same principle applies to anyone with a problem, including me. I am no where close to perfect and I struggle with my weaknesses, but I try hard to do what is right. I think that is what is going to count in the long run.

Life is a really long set of stairs. God doesn't care where we are on the stairs. He only cares about which way we're headed; up or down.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Dumbledore is a natural at flicking his hand, not because he's an extraordinary wizard; it's because he is gay



It was announced this week that Professor Dumbledore from the beloved Harry Potter series is a homosexual. This is great news -- For the gay community! For the rest of us, this is a tragic discovery.


Many people- straight and gay -are very upset about this news. I think its obvious why the straight community is mad. A role model, a child's icon is suddenly a drastically different person. The gay community (I'm speculating here) is upset because of the practically non-existent prescense this very relative (to them) piece of information is to the story.


J. K. Rowling escapes the critism and resentment of this colorful addition to her popular series by saying that Dumbledore's sexual preference had nothing to do with the context of the story. (I agree.) As much as we all want to know everything about the world of Harry Potter, there are things that aren't important. Knowing that Dumbledore was gay would only cause 14 year old boys to laugh and cause orthodox Christians to dislike the books even more than they already do. Everyone else would be completely indifferent. But mostly just because it wouldn't change the story. I think Rowling left it out because she didn't want people to read into anything involving Dumbledore's sexual orientation because it would detract from the story. And it would distracting because being gay is wrong and the controversies surrounding living an alternative lifestyle are rampant in our society. (The power that the gay community- one of the smallest minorities in our country- possess is scary.)


My real personal opinion is that this is something to drag out the Harry Potter craze for a little while longer. That's what she said. Or he said.