The biggest argument in favour of bigotry against gays and lesbians among certain religions and the non religous, is the fact that their sexuality is a matter of choice. They are, according to those who espouse this theory, born as men and subsequently choose to pursue an unnatural sexuality based upon some sort of sick perversion. This garbage now falls by the wayside.
I’d like to start by reiterating my previous viewpoint — that any bigotry is the real perversion. I don’t need scientific evidence to tell those with irrational hatreds against anyone different to them to seek help. Even if gays and lesbians were doing it by choice, then it is their right in any event, and to hate them for it is pathetic.
Now however, to condemn them is to fly in the face of the most basic of religious principles.
The scientific findings are now well known in the media. This from the Sydney Morning Herald:
“Scientists at the Stockholm Brain Institute in Sweden published findings offering fresh evidence that sexual orientation is hardwired into neural circuitry.
Brain scans reveal that homosexual men and heterosexual women have symmetrical brains, with the right and left hemispheres almost exactly the same size. Conversely, lesbians and heterosexual men have asymmetrical brains, with the right hemisphere significantly larger than the left. They also found that certain brain circuits linked to emotional responses were the same in gay men and heterosexual women.
The findings, published in the US journal Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, suggest biological factors influencing sexual orientation, such as exposure to testosterone in the womb, may also shape the brain’s anatomy. The study, led by the neurobiologist Ivanka Savic, builds on previous research that identified differences in spatial and verbal abilities related to sexual orientation. Tests have found gay men and heterosexual women fare better at certain language tasks, while heterosexual men and lesbians tend to have better spatial awareness.
Savic and her colleague Per Lindstrom used positron emission tomography to look at brain wiring, finding heterosexual women and gay men shared brain circuitry that links a region called the amygdala, which plays a key role in emotional responses, to other parts of the brain.
In heterosexual men and lesbians, the amygdala feeds signals directly into parts of the brain that trigger the “fight or flight” response, which Savic says is more physically active than the wiring seen in gay men and heterosexual women.”
It is fundamental to the main religions that man is created in the image of God with our Creator determining our make-up. If, as it now transpires that gay men and straight women are designed in the same way then, in line with this new evidence, they have been created in the same way in respect of their sexuality. Accordingly gay men have as much choice as women in their choice. To choose women, in accordance with this design would be unnatural.
The alternative is to suggest that God does not create humanity, or if he does, he somehow creates gays or straights on a Friday (depends which one you believe is the correct model). Which makes us what?
Children of a lesser God?
A Creator unable to design humanity, but rather one just sitting in judgement on individuals of the species?
The alternative is that God creates mankind, each individual and group special — the differences strengthening the race as a whole and a cause for celebration not hatred.
That is my God.
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