Differences are ok. If we all thought the same way it would be a pretty boring world.
I don't think it's sick to want gay experiences. I don't even think it's sick to want annonymous sex- with a male or a female. Huge numbers of men have enjoyed, at least once in their lives, sex with a prostitute. I don't see the point in labeling something "sick" when it's a fairly common fantasy, and in fact I think it's problematic to enlarge the envelope of "sickness".
There are areas around here where gay men go to meet each other for annonymous sex. I don't think that should be illegal, and I don't think it's sick.
We all make choices every day- that's true, but most people secretly make wrong choices. Look at the number of adulterers for a start. I think we can all understand why those people might stand up in church and say "Adultery is wrong," even though they were in the middle of an affair. Though I'm not religious I find a lot of wisdom in the following (though it is rare to find a person who truly sins no more :-)
"According to the Gospel of John, the Pharisees, in an attempt to discredit Jesus, brought a woman charged with adultery before him. Then they reminded Jesus that adultery was punishable by stoning under Mosaic law and challenged him to judge the woman so that they might then accuse him of disobeying the law. Jesus thought for a moment and then replied, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.” The people crowded around him were so touched by their own consciences that they departed. "
Now that is NOT to say I don't think people should suffer for the hypocrisy they show when they act out against the very things they are secretly doing, and abuse of power is also something, for public policy reasons, we cannot tolerate, and that is a "sin" we must punish. |
