This was in my e-mail this evening. It's certainly a different approach to the issue, and it's funny besides.
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During the Presidential Debate on Wednesday evening, the question was asked of the candidates, "Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?"
Bush responded with, "I just don't know."
Kerry answered with, 'I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice. I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.
And I've met wives who are supportive of their husbands or vice versa when they finally sort of broke out and allowed themselves to live who they were, who they felt God had made them."
Bush's answer seemed honest. Maybe Kerry's was honest too. However, if you accept that homosexuality is not a choice, but biological, then you must face the reality of what that implies.
Can anyone say with confidence that homosexuality is natural? I can't imagine that as being normal to nature as the driving instinct of the natural world is to reproduce. Therefore, if homosexuality is not normal within nature, it must be defined as a defect, probably genetic in origin.
Is this not a conclusion based upon solid reasoning?
Now, the medical community has classified many genetic defects as diseases. Could being gay be a disease, and if so, could medicine not develop treatments? Perhaps genetic engineering could someday provide a "cure"?
Does this mean that gay Americans should be classified as being disabled? Maybe, but I'll be damned if we're going give them handicapped parking permits!
Before you dismiss my thoughts due to your own personal prejudices, stop and think about this: If being a homosexual was classified as a disablement, then would gays find any protection under the American's With Disabilities Act? This law makes discrimination based upon a disability a crime.
As rediculous as this may appear on the surface, it may be worth investigating.
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Widewing