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DIARY:   Ruminations, Occasional thoughts & happenings - as they arise

HOMOPHOBIC? - 20th June 2003

I see that in certain parts of Canada, if you are a man, you can now marry another man - and presumably if you are a woman you can marry another woman! There are a couple of Scandinavian countries - I forget which - where the same legalities exist 
Great! Isn't it! 
Well, not in my book!
Let me come out of the closet.  I am not enamoured by the concept and practice of homosexuality.  The vision of the oral and anal sex involved does not turn me on. Don't get me wrong.  I am not against individuals who genuinely find themselves in the situation where they feel that they are female locked into a male body, and vice-versa.  
I have known a few people in this situation, where the disorder that exists throughout the created world takes this particular form, where male and female genes and hormones, inextricably mixed, are in a state of imbalance, creating an unwanted, deeply troubling and sometimes terrifying problem.
I am deeply concerned about people in such a situation  - and I don't really know what the solution might be, certainly not in each and every case.
But I do not believe that the solution is to encourage such people to 'marry'.
Marriage is, to my mind, the permanent and sacramental union of a man and a woman - a union created and publicly, jointly declared by them and blessed by God, establishing a unity of mind and body whereby love may be expressed in the closest physical way, leading to the creation of children - a wonderful, creative union of love and care.
I have just looked up the definition of marriage in Chamber's Dictionary:
  "MARRIAGE: The union of a man and a woman as husband and wife."  
The definition will need to be revised if the legalities adopted in Canada are to become accepted practice throughout the world.
Some would say, "Ach! Let it go! There always will be homosexuals, so let it stand that there will be homosexual 'marriage'.  It will solve a lot of legal problems - and love and loyalty does exist between some same-sex partners - as it does between some male and female partners."
I agree that it will solve legalities - questions about ownership of property etc. - for those people who wish their homosexual  relationship to be permanent and exclusive - but it ought not to be called 'marriage'. 
Such a term tends to reduce the sanctity and worth of real marriage.  
Call it "Same Sex Union" or perhaps a "Gay Union" - but not marriage, which is a holy and wholesome state. Years of arrogant lobbying has purloined the beautiful word 'gay', making it virtually unusable for any purpose other than indicating things relating to homosexual activity.  It is interesting to note that vociferous homosexuals should have sought to monopolise the word, implying that those who are homosexual are gay, lively and happy, while those who are not are not - if you see what I mean. The necessity to hide behind the word 'gay' indicates to me that the homosexual lobby is deeply, atavistically ashamed of the word 'homosexual', instinctively recognising that that the state is not normal  For such people 'gay' is a cover-up for abnormality, for something unusual, not 'right'. 
There are others who see clearly and accept that heterosexuality is the normal, desirable state, recognise in truth and in nature that they are born with a problem of gender and sexual identity, and courageously work towards a solution of their problem, mainly taking up their cross and denying themselves, working towards the light.
Less honest 'Gays', or homosexuals, will furiously object to my approach and will categorise me as 'homophobic', meaning that I hate, detest men (homo/man  +  phobism/fear, aversion, hatred).  Not so.  I love men, and women, especially the two who generated me, and again -  very specially - those homosexual men and women who bravely and intelligently accept the imbalance of nature that exists in their being, who use wit, prayer, medicine and personal restraint to achieve normality.  These can be the saints of the dawning new world of the resurrection in Jesus Christ, where all ills, evils and imbalances - as well as tears, heartbreak and suffering - are totally abolished.
[Click here to see letter on this subject on another page.]

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