Is it, or is it on some kind of continuum. Some recent overheard remarks: 'we are all a little bi-sexual...sexual orientation is such a Western concept..this is the 21st century, what does gay mean?'
Could there even be no such thing as sexual orientation?
We love someone, could that be anyone, we love in different ways, we fall out of love with different people. Gay activist, Tom Robinson, met and fell in love with a woman and had children together, 'you can't help who you love', he said.
We have sex, what is sex? Is it the physical sensation that you enjoy? What difference does it make who makes that physical sensation, who does it, male of female?
What of celibacy? People can choose celibacy. What if someone defines themselves as bi sexual, if there are in a committed relationship, they are respecting fidelity: but only with a partner of one sex not both?
Does it matter? Have we got it wrong? Both in the Church and the gay community?
Other cultures have homosexual expressions, but would not label someone gay or straight. Are we not more than our sexuality?
The human rights and gay activist, Peter Tatchell has written at length about the flaws of contemporary thinking around biological determinism as being simplistic and seeming to defensively justify gay people. Such 'science' about genes is accepted as fact and to question it seems modern day heresy. However, perhaps the truth is little more ambiguous, moderate and interesting as the words of Jesus in the previous blog post state: 'some men were born that way, others have been made that way'?
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