The TheologyOnline.com TOPIC OF THE DAY for September 16th, 2011 10:12 AM
| toldailytopic: Does your opinion about homosexuality change if the behavior turns out to be genetic? |
No. People each have their weaknesses. Giving in to those weaknesses is sin. We should not be encouraging people to engage in self destructive patterns of behavior even if it
is genetic. Homosexuality is a behavioral dysfunction even if you don't look at the sin aspect of it.
Let take a look at bipolar disorder which
is genetic for comparison. It is a dysfunction that is treated today with assorted medications. Beethoven was said to have suffered with it. Untreated it can lead to overspending mood swings and wild behavior. It also leads to a reduced lifespan. Patients often die early do to excesses or heart attack. Fortunately the condition is recognized as a pathology and treated as such. The patients, thanks to treatment often do lead normal functional lives.
Homosexuality also has some serious medical consequences. Humans were not designed for it.
Our post modern culture has developed a blindness when it comes to homosexuality. Instead of trying to treat the sickness, they just let the person be sick. Sexual perversions are very hard to treat once a person gets snared in them. So not only are they a sin, they are a sickness too. Instead of condoning the behavior patterns, doctors should be looking for ways to treat it.
I will always take a dim view of any sexual perversion because God does. Yes, any sex outside of the marriage between a man and a woman is a perversion of what God intended. God take a dim view of anything that separates people from Him. Sin separates people from God.
