This is a letter to the editor in the Savannah Morning News today:
Stop scapegoating gay men for pedophilia
The “biblical prohibition” on homosexuality isn’t God-ordaine, any more than the “biblical institution” of human-bondage. Both are man-centric constructs better left behind enlightenment.
The Catholic church’s vow of celibacy should also be re-considered.
In a modern world where everything revolves around the sexual message, it appears impractical.
Whether it’s books, film, or advertising, everything is geared towards sex, romance, and family life.
These messages create longing in us, desire, perfectly natural and God-given.
Love, including same-sex, is never sin; any suggestion otherwise comes from darkness.
The problem of sexual abuse in the church isn’t due to homosexuality any more than heterosexuality. Pedophilia is a rare disorder that ultimately defines this problem from hell because children are conquerable and controllable.
But I’m not so sure it’s the main driver. We should examine homophobia and suppression of heterosexuality.
Some of the worst stories in the report about Pennsylvania’s Catholic sex-abuse involve heterosexual proclivity (for example, the violating of the 7-year-old girl recovering from tonsil surgery).
In an age when same-sex couples marry, letters referencing “a lifestyle leading to moral abuse,” or “separating children and adults of the same sex,” are stomach-churningly offensive.
Every gospel minister is automatically presumed heterosexual for no other reason than too many folks still consider homosexuals “ungodly.”
Which is to say, most every child-molester we are referencing is heterosexual “identified.”
Enlightenment requires adjustment of doctrine. Judeo-Christian practitioners rightly reject every inane provision of ancient biblical social construct from slavery to segregation, women-be-silent, shunning non-virgins (female only), etc.
It is time to do the same with the prohibition on homosexuality.
Slave-owners/segregationists thought they were so right we had a war.
I know firsthand that no amount of “reparative therapy” (pray-away-the-gay), behavioral “modification” or the whipping-lash of self-condemnation can change a homosexual’s desire to love and be loved like anyone else.
Ironically, seminary unlocked my own chains: my problem wasn’t homosexuality or God, it was homophobic stigma.
Be not deceived, multi-decades of suppressing one’s sexuality, straight or gay, might be like a can of soda shaken and popped open.
When it releases, the pressure explodes it into view; maybe, monster-like.
It is past time to face facts and stop scapegoating gay men for church-created pedophile-monsters.
Gifted with uncommon empathy, gay people are famously altruistic, which is why we make great teachers. Read the paper any day of the week, clearly, kids are safer in our presence than any heterosexual-identified man.
Bernie Evans, Black Creek
5 comments:
"Gifted with uncommon empathy, gay people are famously altruistic....." I call STEREOTYPE!
"In a modern world where everything revolves around the sexual message..."
That tells you all you need to know about how this writer thinks. His conclusions logically follow from this premiss.
"In a modern world where everything revolves around the sexual message..."
Victor, it sounds more like his conclusions logically flow from his nether regions.
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
If you go to the Savannah Morning News opinion page, you will see that this poor fellow is DESPERATE for public approval. He apparently turns something in for publication every day and cries foul when every utterance of his is not taken as Holy Writ. Very sad.
LOL, Richard! I was thinking the same thing, but you actually wrote it down!
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