how do you think fundie Christians will handle it?
My guess is that they would say something like, "Alcoholism is biological, but that doesn't mean that you have to become an alcoholic."
Some will probably blame the "homosexual agenda" for trying to convince scientists that it is biological, and still claim that it is a choice.
Some will say that Downs Syndrome is biological, being born deaf or blind is biological, and something that one can work around, as if being homosexual was a kind of deformity.
Some will quote:
Mathew 19:12
2For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
However, researching eunuch in wikipedia, one will find the origins during religion:
Among the earliest records of human religion are accounts of castration as an act of devotion, and sacred eunuchs are found in spiritual roles. Archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük, a large Neolithic town of southern Anatolia, suggest that such practises were common in the worship as far back as 7500 BC of a goddess similar perhaps to the Cybele of historical records.[citation needed] The Galli, later Roman followers of Cybele, also practiced ritual self-castration, known as sanguinaria. The practice is said to have continued throughout Christian times, with many of the early church castrating themselves as an act of devotion, although the extent and even the existence of this practice among Christians is controversial.[11][unreliable source?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
I don't think anyone will say, "So, we were wrong. It's not just a choice, or a lifestyle choice, or someone who is heterosexual just performing same-sex sex acts."
The most disturbing thing that I heard on conservative radio (it's good to know one's enemies), is that they were insistent that homosexuality was not biological. After being adamant about that claim, they said, "and even if they did find a gay gene, then we could irradicate it."
Like cleansing the population.
I think it will also put such people in a quandry. What do they do now about religious conversion therapy, if they know the person is naturally homosexual? Can one really blame a homosexual for having same-sex attractions, the same way that heterosexuals have opposite sex attractions? Do homosexuals actually fall in love with same sex people? Why would God create homosexuals? If homosexuals are biological, should they be granted minority biological status?
Do verses like,
Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence [sic] of their error which was meet."
really apply to biological homosexuals, since they aren't turning against their nature, but acting on it? (One has to ask if it speaks of homosexuals at all, since it was referring to people who
In my personal opinion Paul was referring to same sex sexual acts committed in idolatrous worship by people he regarded as heterosexual. Even the most conservative theologian can only give their opinion as to what type of same sex acts Paul was referring to. No one can state that God clearly condemns all homosexuality activity based upon these verses. It is just too vague.
http://whosoever.org/bible/romans.shtml
There was a funny letter to the editor from a pastor of a church. He was asking the congregation to welcome homosexuals to worship at the church, because they are God's children as well. And old woman came up to him as he greeted everyone after the service. She asked him to reconsider, and the pastor asked her if a gay person came to the church, and Jesus was at the door, would he welcome him, or tell him to go away. She answered, "Well, He would probably let the gay man in, but He would be wrong!"
And I think that sums up what I think. Jesus himself could appear, and tell everyone that homosexuality as we understand it today is not what anyone was talking about in any of the passages listed in the bible, and people would still believe what they wanted to about it, mostly because it is easier to focus on the "sins" of others, and ignore your own. I also allows you to dehumanize the person, and justify not loving your neighbor as yourself, because they are somehow lower than you, and undeserving of your love, and some even tell themselves that even God doesn't love them.
When one goes to that extreme, hating in the name of God, and quoting scripture to support it, one doesn't know God, according to I John 4:7-8, so I don't think it has anything about doing what is right, or upholding morality, but being superior, and the swan song of scapegoating a minority for all the world's ills, and find yourself often agreed with and congratulated, the way a racist would be agreed with by other racists.
A lot of it is because times have changed a lot. My grandparents, who were very religious, would look at each other back in the 70s when ever a black person, like Flip Wilson, came on TV, and giggle, "Darkies" or some other slur, and thought that it didn't conflict with their Christianity at all.
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