Re: [asa] science and homosexuality

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From: "gordon brown" <gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] science and homosexuality

>I think that many of the Christian groups opposing the gay agenda are
> taking the wrong approach by having as their focus the reason that some
> people have homosexual temptations. That is what the other side wants as
> the central issue, and they might win if that is the issue. The reason
> that one is subject to a particular temptation does not mean that
> succumbing to it is not sin. Being subject to heterosexual temptations
> does not excuse heterosexual sin. .........

This is true as far as it goes but it omits a critical point: There is a
"remedy" for heterosexual temptation, marriage. Denying the possibility of
same-sex unions means that a corresponding remedy is denied to homosexual
persons. The situations are not symmetric.

N.B. I am not so naive as to think that married persons are never tempted
to commit adultery & in fact sometimes do it! & I don't think that viewing
marriage simply as a means of lessening sexual temptation is a full
expression of what marriage is about, I Cor.7 notwithstanding. I am only
trying to get at the essence of the comparison Gordon makes here.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Wed Jun 14 17:52:57 2006