| Okay, let me argue with you. One of the few things I think you go off about too much is homosexuality. I am on the conservative page about not sanctioning gay marriages, or treating them generally as a protected class, analogous to blacks, and I think there are people who choose to go that way, and could avoid it. However, all of the evidence points to their being people who cannot help it, primarily for psychological reasons, and who have no discernible attraction to the opposite sex. They would be unable to experience erotic love if they did not act out, and in a secular regime, we cannot make that decision for them, as long as they are engaged in consensual acts. Nor should we, as private citizens, be so intolerant that we are determined to exact a price that the government cannot, and make their lives miserable. We can hold heterosexuality as the ideal, and nevertheless not make their burden worse, just as we would someone with a physical handicap, and that seems to me the position that you should take. If you object that faith can cure them, I can only say that if you want to convert them, fine, but otherwise, you should lay off.......... |
