God's View on Homosexuality: Playing Devil's Advocate
God's View on Homosexuality: Does the Almighty Ever Change His Mind?
By: Fat Lester
This post began as a response to a comment on a story I saw on Mixx entitled: Battle on to Bar Same-Gender Adoption.
All I'm saying is that the world's population has grown considerably since then. If you believe God created man, it follows logically that God (or some subcontractor/s working on his behalf) was the master programmer who coded human DNA into existence. Evolution is written into DNA, as is homosexuality.
The actual definition of the term "evolution" is defined scientifically as the mutation in a given gene or set of genes in an individual or entire species which better adapts that species for survival in its current environment.
If humans are created in image of Almighty God, and we change our minds on things all the time --- especially as circumstances change --- what man can state with certainty that God does not do likewise? Who is to say that in the past 5,000 years, as the human population has experienced exponential growth, that God did not foresee this growth and encode into our genetic evolution a condition which would remove people from the gene pool without depriving them of the ability to experience love --- perhaps the greatest part of the entire human experience?
How do we know that God's take on the matter has not taken a complete u-turn in light of the fact that we are on course to severely overpopulate the planet long before we develop the technological capability to export human life elsewhere in the universe?
I don't for a minute purport to know the answers to these questions.
Republican Priorities: Gay Rights vs. Abortion
From a political perspective, the only chance the Republicans to ever come close to revisiting the issue of Roe v. Wade is to get gay voters to vote for Republicans instead of Democrats. Genetic technology will soon enable doctors to know pre-birth whether or not a fetus will be born with a genetic predisposition to homosexuality. That will result in many women using that knowledge when considering whether to give birth or have an abortion.
If the GOP were to do a complete 180 on gay issues and apply the same principles about limited government, the right to privacy and equality under law of all persons to issues like gay marriage and adoption, when this prenatal technology enters the commercial marketplace, Republicans would be in a prime position to seize 7-10% of the voting bloc who would all-of-a-sudden largely have taken on a pro-life stance.
Politics involves compromise. That is the beauty of the American Government and its Separation of Powers. The Republican party right now is fighting over which priorities take precedent over others. If abortion is still political issue about which the GOP hopes to retain any clout with among pro-life voters, it has to embrace gay rights and start doing so now. Otherwise, Republicans will continue to have trouble motivating the pro-life component of the base.
The point is two-fold. One, I am not smart enough to understand the mind of God. Two, looking at it strictly from the vantage point of political strategy, the GOP must be able to lure gay voters away from the Democrats, and the timing for such an offensive move could not be any better.
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jmhullii on November 30, 2009
What exactly is the gay gene? We all have the same genes, it's just which are active and which aren't that make us different. Genetic code makes you short, tall, black, white, etc. but not gay.
I believe that, just as I have a chemical imbalance in my brain which makes me bi-polar, so do others have an imbalance that makes them gay.
No, I'm not referring to gay as crazy. And contrary to what you may believe, I'm not anti-gay. I have several gay friends that know I'm rough around the edges and will say what I think to anyone that asks, and they also know that I draw the line in my beliefs when it comes to marriage and children.
It's not my place to judge anyone, but I can't help getting involved where my faith or where soldiers, children and the elderly are involved.
fauxscot on December 01, 2009
jmhulli...
What you 'believe' is irrelevant. What the evidence shows is not.
Your concern over soldiers,the elderly, kids, faith are commendable, but they aren't science.
Knowledge is a threat to faith. God is a synonym for human ignorance. Embrace reality.
Do you think we should allow hate crimes against bipolars? Lots of people think it's OK to hate gays, blacks, women. Why not add bipolars? (See where your reasoning leads?)
rich on December 02, 2009
In the old testament, God did change His mind. He had a debate with Abraham about whether to destroy all of Sodom and Gommorah, and Abraham bargained with him, which eventually led to God sending angels to Lot and saving him.
So in spite of theological arguments to the contrary, and claims that God, being perfect, cannot change His mind -- if you believe in the Christian (or Jewish) Bible, which most rightist fundamentalist claim, and if you believe in the literal truth of the Bible, which most rightists also claim, then the proof is right there -- God changed his mind. End of debate.
Also, the arrival of Christ was supposed to be evidence of God changing His mind in the sense that violations of God's Law would no longer necessarily be immutable if one repented and express faith in Jesus as their savior. So God said, obey the Law, but then said, but if you don't, there may still be some hope for you. That is what the New Covenant and forgiveness and compassion are all about. As for homosexuality, Jesus never mentioned it so far as I recall, but Jesus certainly did say that all sin was sin, that any sin meant that the sinner fell short of God, and He did not single out homosexuality as being any worse than lying, coveting, taking God's name in vain, adultery, or anything else. What Jesus actually emphasized was charity toward the poor and the diseased and the disadvantaged, and the only folks he ever truly condemned were the self-righteous Pharisees and the money changers in the temple, i.e., those who were all full of their own righteousness and thought they were all that, and those who turned religion into a business (remind you of anyone, right-wingers?)
Christian, by the way, is supposed to mean Christ-like, and there is nothing particularly Christ-like about homosexual-bashing right-wing fundamentalists.
Enough said.
