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WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT
NATURE ANYWAY?
THE
DOUBLE STANDARD
Are loving and committed same-sex relationships unnatural and therefore evil? Religion opposes civil partnerships which gives gay couples rights similar to married couples. Religion prefers to encourage the promiscuity it accuses gay people of by doing that - though it faints with horror and outrage at promiscuity. Oh the hypocrisy! The Christian view of marriage is that the man is the head and the woman is under his authority. Few Christians dare to teach this today and yet these are the ones opposing the gay right to have a relationship protected by law.
Some Christians who
oppose civil partnership bills and laws
claim that they do this not because they are anti-gay but pro-marriage.
That is like hitting a wife-beater and saying you are not against him but his
wife-beating. Christians imagine differences that don't exist - such is
their hypocrisy.
The Bible teaches that homosexuals are guilty of grave sin and stand to
be separated from God forever unless they repent. The Bible is the foundation of the Christian
religion for it is the word of God, God’s revelation to them.
Most religion unfairly approves of smoking despite all the deaths and
wastage of money and disgust it causes and it certainly is not natural. And then it would condemn a single gay act
that did no harm. Even if it did do harm
and serious harm was avoided it would not be as bad as a life of smoking. To say that homosexuality is sinful is a
heinous crime against humanity. If it is
bad then it follows that the transmission of AIDS by gays is inexcusable. If it were good the AIDS would be a tragic
side effect. It would be like wives
being said to be good for having babies though giving birth will kill some of
them. But if the wives have no excuse
for having babies it is different. Religion
certainly teaches that gay people have no excuse for having sex. So what is happening is that gays are being
accused of deserving the death penalty.
They all deserve to die for they promote an evil that leads to death and
the human person is the absolute value so to be a practicing homosexual is to
be a murderer. If it were only married
people who could get AIDS and who get it in marriage the Church would not
condemn marriage because of that. So,
don’t argue that the Church condemns gays out of love for them and the wish
that they will not get AIDS.
Men and women do all sorts of seemingly unnatural acts in bed. Many men and women have nerve endings in
their rectums that makes them need and enjoy anal penetration of some kind – a
clear proof from nature that homosexuality is natural. Nature must want some of us to have that kind
of sexual pleasure. It is not perverted pleasure
when nature makes it possible.
If sex is for increasing the human race, people should stick to
penis-vagina intercourse alone and why does nature not make sure that every act
of intercourse between a male and female results in a child? Because sex is about fun more than making
babies. We do not regard sex between
sterile or contraceptive people as unnatural so we deny that love-making is
only for reproduction. We see sex as
about making ourselves happy and about having children if we wish and are
ready. It is no more unnatural than
eating food we do not need for pleasure.
When the Church says that sex means that two people are telling one
another they will be together for life it follows that pre-marital sex is
always unnatural but so hypocritical is the Church that it does not. For a man to sexually desire his wife when
she is not aroused would seem to be unnatural for she cannot respond. But the Church does not teach that it
is. As chapter 4 of Mortal Questions
argues the first level of sexual feeling is arousal by someone who is not
aroused and the second is arousal by someone who is with both consenting. It defines perversion as that which gets
stuck at the first level and does not progress to the second. That is why bestiality and raping children
and flashing are wrong. The Church has
to reject this logic for its Bible simply does not care about the wife in
marriage. It can’t give convincing
reasons against these things so it must take some of the blame when these
things happen. Mortal Questions
upholds the view that buggery and oral sex are permissible as long as both
partners like them. It says that
homosexuality cannot count as a perversion for there is a great deal of variety
in man and woman relations anyway.
The Catholic Church holds that anal sex and oral sex are unnatural sins
and are forbidden for they are not open to life. The man’s duty is to get on top of his wife
and stick to putting his penis in her vagina for the missionary position
increases the chance of pregnancy.
Kissing her breasts must be sinful sexual activity as well for it is not
necessary or open to life. It cannot be
right for a woman to be pleasured during sex.
The man has to just get up on her for sex is about babies so the only
thing that matters is penetration and getting sperm in the vagina. Anything else would be inconsistent with sex
being for babies. When the Church says
sex is only loving when a baby is intended if God so wills, it follows that the
holiest sexual acts are those that can result in conception. So going straight for the vagina is the law
for a man who claims to love his wife.
It is odd that the Church does not consider a man who finds red hair on a
woman a turn-off to be abnormal and does find a man who cannot fancy women at
all abnormal. The Church is obviously
prejudiced.
The Church does not protest when married people snog each other on
television or forbid us looking at it.
Kissing can convey as much intimacy as sex can and the only reason the
Church does not complain about what is an abuse of a sacred act according to
its doctrine because people will look on the Church as a society of weird
people. For example, if a woman and man
were deeply in love and they never made love and the man was dying in a car
crash the woman kissing him would convey deeper emotional intimacy that sex
needs to have and it would convey as much physical intimacy as she could give
him. She is making love to him with her
lips and there will be some erotic stimulation.
Snogging passes on bodily fluids and there is penetration of some sort,
the lips go part of the way into the other person’s mouth and often the tongue
is inserted. A person can have sex and
pretend he is with somebody else but with kissing this is less likely for it is
more difficult. Christianity panders to
social mores for an easy life and picks on gays because society does the same.
WHAT’S
SO GREAT ABOUT NATURE ANYWAY?
We ought to break the
laws of nature for our own good. We do
that all the time. Nature has put water
in lakes and rivers and streams and not in the pipes leading into our homes. Nature is not more important than people
especially when it makes us think that people are more important. Anybody who says that homosexuals are dirty
and wicked because they are unnatural should be thrown in jail for incitement
to hatred. In actual fact, we don’t really
know what natural or normal is apart from the fact that it is abnormal though
common to be evil and it is arrogant and blind to say we do. The Humanist solution that if the behaviour
makes sense to you then it is natural.
We believe that the religious habit of following beliefs just because it
is desired that they be true is seriously abnormal. The ones that go on about normal without
knowing what it is are usually abnormal themselves or think they are. We hate others for being what we hate in
ourselves.
Natural law does not deserve to be treated as something sacrosanct and
inviolable for it is blind and brutal.
Nobody should mind a man living with a man or two lesbians living
together as long as they are happy. If
it is against nature that that is too damned bad for nature is tarnished by
evil and deserves all the defiance it gets.
It cannot be proved that same-sex love is unnatural for if you want a
computer to think that 2+2=5 then that is the way the machine needs to be. It looks unnatural but it is not unnatural
for it.
People of the same sex are able to enjoy sex with one another so don’t be
so sure that they are not physically or naturally incompatible. Perhaps God pushes people who look physically
incompatible together for one of his mysterious purposes. Also, a man knows a man’s needs and body
better than a woman’s and a woman knows a woman’s desires and body better than
a man’s. The sexes are so different that
it is difficult for them to be sexually and emotionally compatible. Consider the number of women whose partners
cannot give them an orgasm. This tells us
that gay loving is not as unnatural as it looks.
Many people feel that since homosexual relationships tend to be
short-term that they are wrong. But
immaturity and weakness or the pressures down to the hostile attitude of
society and not homosexuality are to blame for that. Gay love can be stronger than a lot of
“straight” love.
The Bible should be illegal for by condemning gay people without evidence
it commits the crime of incitement to hatred.
The Bible also says that humans wholly oppose God though they may fake
devotion to him meaning that if a man lives in the condemned lifestyle of a
homosexual he should not be believed if he cannot say his sexuality was not a
choice.
Nobody has the right to say that homosexuality is immoral unless they can
prove it. And they cannot.
Even if it is unnatural it is more unnatural to force celibacy on gays
and what is the most natural should be what should be encouraged and allowed
even if this means condoning homosexuality even if it is unnatural.
If homosexuality is a disorder then when there is no damage to the brain
it follows that like all mental disorders that are psychological in nature it
must be caused by fear and fear of women would have to be the cause. But gays like women and respect them better
than many straight men do so if there is a fear it must be of having sex with
women. But many gays want to become
straight so that is a strange suggestion too.
The fear would then most likely arise from the sense that men are more
sexually accessible than women. They are
easier lays. Thus the Church would have
to say that homosexuality is caused by depravity. The fact that gays have a smaller choice of
people to make love with refutes this.
The suggestion of some that only homosexual acts are disordered and not
the sexuality is unacceptable – they say that the homosexual orientation is not
a sin but acting on it or encouraging it is.
This really means that you must do all you can to avoid sexual
feelings. It is too wrong to be taken
seriously for if the sexuality is not unacceptable then the acts are
acceptable. If men should have sex with
women and not men then to say the inclination to have sex with men is okay is
insane and insincere.
The Church would agree that a gay person should try to become straight
and go into therapy in the hope of that happening and pray ceaselessly for a
cure meaning that to accept being gay is a sin and it is only not a sin when
there is really nothing you can do. Even
if the cure rate is very low the homosexual and lesbian is obliged by Christian
doctrine to keep trying to become to called “normal”. So they must pray a lot, visit therapists and
analyse themselves and avoid temptation.
The key word is try. The fact is
that when homosexuality as an orientation will make one’s life a misery then even
if it is not a disorder it is not a good thing.
If you admit that much and you have to then if you think it leads to or
tries to lead to disordered acts then it is a disorder. You do not say hatred is not a disorder but
hateful acts are disordered for that makes no sense.
The Church manipulates people to oppose homosexuality on the grounds that
it does not look very natural. It looks
as if vaginas are meant to hold penises so sex should only be between the two
sexes. But looks are often
deceiving. Trees seem to be meant to
grow in the ground and not to end up in the fireplace. The danger in the Church’s logic is that it
subtly advocates racism. It looks as if
blacks should only wed blacks. So if same sex relationships look unnatural
then it follows we should not let whites and blacks marry each other.
It looks as if black skin is given to be maintained
and passed on not to be lost or reduced through the descendants of blacks who
wed whites. But again, what is important
is people’s happiness and if nature drives a white man to wed a black woman he
should and that is what nature wants
regardless of what happens to the skin of their offspring and theirs. The Church finds itself backed up by its
Bible which gives no argument against homosexuality whatsoever. It is just condemned as if there could be no
argument about it for it looks unnatural. This implicit racism needs to be
dealt with by the law.
THE CLOSET
Religion forbids all lies so it must want homosexuals to come out and be
destroyed rather than live a lie.
However, the Church forbids gays to come out in such a way that they ask
for their behaviour as gay people to be respected and encouraged for that is
the sin of trying to draw others away from Church teaching and the Bible and to
set an example for other gay people to follow.
The closeted gay cannot have true friends for nobody really knows her or him
and none of them are trusted. It is a
sin for a gay to have a friend of the same sex in case she or he falls in
love. It would be a sin to tolerate that
love for it involves desiring to corrupt another person. The gay must stick to ugly and disagreeable
acquaintances. To give a practicing
homosexual a job would be rewarding their sin for there are plenty of other
people who can do it. Bosses who find
that gay employees upset them so that their own job suffers can fire them for
the Church won’t let them approve of homosexuality or try to and she allows bad
feelings towards such sin.
Some Christians who support gay rights state that Romans 1, in the
Christian scriptures which God wrote through men, which condemns same sex
relations is just condemning heterosexuals who deliberately force themselves to
indulge in gay acts though it is against their nature. Romans actually states that it condemns
people of the same sex desiring each other.
Changing from heterosexual to homosexual can only be wrong if homosexuality
is always wrong. The Church does not
mind forcing some people who are latent gays to think they are
heterosexual. The Christian regime does
its best to produce heterosexuals with the result that this happens. Nobody can say that it is just perverting
your sexual nature that is wrong.
Rules based on what is natural or unnatural are meaningless and the only
exception is that evil and cruelty are disorders.
One of the horrors the Church inflicts is forbidding a homosexual to
accept their sexuality. If it is
unnatural then it is curable even if the cure is very hard to attain for it is
a psychological disorder and not an organic one. It would not be God’s will for anybody to be
gay. To accept the sexual make-up would
be to see it as a good thing and the Church cannot admit that it is but can
only say that it is a disorder. The
heterosexual is better than the homosexual.
The result of this attitude is a lack of self-esteem and a corresponding
lack of esteem for others in many gays that results in promiscuous and
dangerous sexual behaviour. It often
leads to suicidal thoughts and desires.
When Jesus said that anybody who gives his wife a divorce makes her commit
adultery it implies that anyone who allows gays to go about their business is
making them commit the sin of homosexuality.
The Church should not deny that even if homosexuality is evil that it is
better to allow it and encourage safe sexual activity than to have one person
commit suicide due to the way things are made so difficult for gays. No gay should compliment the Church by going
to it for help. Instead the Church says
that homosexuality is immoral and should never be practiced and through most of
its history and when it could, it ensured that the civil law persecuted homosexuals.
The Catechism of Christian Doctrine claims that the sin of
Religion says that
the homosexual must not doubt that homosexuality is a sin for that is a
sin. They are not allowed to learn that
homosexuality is not evil or need not be evil so they must silence all
doubts. You can’t learn without
doubts. Religion has betrayed gay people
by making such rules.
Society approves of people looking at violent films with plenty of
killing and blood and guts and it can’t stand homosexual love. The Church likes people to see nails
penetrating Jesus on the cross on TV and then has the nerve to forbid
pornography and even harmless erotica.
All this sanctions hypocrisy and nit picking. The Church then claims that the revulsion
many feel for homosexuality is an inner sense telling them that homosexuality
is abnormal. But that feeling goes as
soon as people get used to seeing gay people kissing or making love on
television. It is just the strangeness
of it all after seeing and thinking of men and women doing it all the
time. When people are repulsed
Christendom is there to convince them that it is nature telling them that
homosexuality is abominably wrong. The
game is to make them believe this for people don’t always be sure why they feel
what they do so that they will be manipulated into being convinced that
homosexuality is wrong and evil. I feel
repulsed by the Christian doctrine and piety so why doesn’t the Church tell me
that it is nature trying to tell me something and warn me about the Church?
The Church tells us to contemplate the violence of the cross which we can
only expect when Jesus said it was the means of our salvation. Why is it okay then for us to fill our heads
with violence in this way?
HOMOPHOBIA
Homophobia, the irrational fear of homosexuals and stereotyping them and
being disgusted by what they do in bed and by men loving men and women loving
women, is indulged in only by those who have gay feelings themselves or maybe
they might fear they have them. They are
disgusted at themselves and they project that disgust unto practicing
homosexuals. It often happens too that
they are just jealous. They may even
have refused to let themselves notice that they had those feelings. People hate the thought of being gay because
an alleged communication from God said being gay is bad and wicked so religion
is to blame more than anything else. It
makes them fear their own gay feelings and suppress them and the result is
hatred of gay people. When people just
pick doctrines and principles that suit themselves and just worry about
themselves and not at all about loyalty to the communication you may think you
see that there is more to it than that.
But there is not for as long as others are happy we should not care what
they do. Something is making us care and
religious conditioning is responsible. Because
homosexuality looks strange and people fear what is strange, religion easily
brainwashes them to turn against gays and lesbians and this will stay with them
even if they are not religious. Attempts
to say that homophobia is not a hatred of homosexuals but simply disgust at what
they do are doomed to fail for there is less disgust at things like
heterosexual male promiscuity and boiling lobsters alive. Gay sex can be clean and healthy and straight
sex is often messy business. People are
disgusted at old people going to bed together but do not try to make their
lives a misery like homophobes do gays.
Homophobia is hate. To say that
homosexuals are doing wrong of their own free will is to say they should be
feared and to say they should be feared is to say they should be hated for hate
is caused by fear and is its direct offshoot - there are only two emotions love
and fear. (Read The Gospel According to Atheism for
verification.) There is no doubt about
that. To say the homosexual urge is a
disorder is to say it should be feared and prevented which is the same thing as
saying homosexuals are dangerous even when they seem not to be. When that is believed all the homosexuals
will get is being treated as if they were hated or there just to be manipulated
and they will be provoked to hate those who persecute them.
The Church does harm when you see it condemning the belief that two gay
men masturbating each other are not doing wrong and then claims to be
open-minded. It is really close-minded
and condemning open-minded. We cannot
stand for this if we are open-minded people.
The Church is being consciously unfair to us and to gay men.
Some homosexuals are heterophobic and that does not mean that they are
closeted heterosexuals. Heterophobia is
understandable because gays are a minority and are continually harassed by the
larger heterosexual community. It is not
based on disgust at heterosexuals having sex or loving one another while
homophobia is disgust at gays doing these things. It is being afraid of what heterosexuals do
and not what they are. The anti-gay
heterosexuals are wholly ungrateful for the acceptance of their sexuality that
they receive from the gay community. It
is easy for them to condemn when they get it easy or easier. It’s selfish.
Gays have a right to sue the Church for condemning them for the Church cannot give a believable reason why homosexuality is wrong and though freedom of speech is important what the Church is doing is not practicing freedom of speech but practicing freedom of abuse. The pope should be jailed for incitement to hatred. And it is a scandal that the Church dwells on the negative side of homosexuality in order to condemn it for that does not prove homosexuality wrong for it is up to each individual gay to make the best of it and increase the positive elements in his or her life. Everything has its pros and cons. When all is said and done you cannot allow incitement to hatred under the guise of freedom of speech. All who spew hate towards minorities or whatever use that excuse. You cannot hide your hatred for the so-called sinner by saying you hate their sin but not them.
The Catholic Church holds that children needs heterosexual role models so people who are known to be gay must never be appointed as teachers. Gay men are barred from the priesthood. The priesthood requires that the right to marriage must be sacrificed to the duty to live as celibate priest. The Church reasons that gay men don't want to marry women so they cannot really make this sacrifice. Indeed, if gay men get ordained it is because they deceive the Church.
Conclusion
Homosexuals should be granted the same rights as heterosexuals. Christianity is guilty of opposition to equality and human rights for gays. If it is consistent, it shouldn’t want to give them any rights at all!
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