re faq essay on homosexuality before you finalize your file in the faqs or after you might want to correct the typo in the following kinsey see below is the source of the figure percent he defines sexuality by behavior not by orientation and ranked all persons on a scale from zero completely heterosexual to completely heterosexual it seems one or the other end of the rating scale should be identified with homosexual as a personal note i guess i differ with you on the question of work entering human life as a result of sin note that in the creation story work enters human life as a result of sin before the fall gen and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it which i would call work for me the difference introduced by sin is the painful aspects of work added at the fall i take the cursing of the ground in vs to apply to the work for sustenance in a way some view work as a blessing ecclesiastes is a fun book for melancholies i hope i do not sound caustic maybe you can enlighten me further well this is certainly a delicate subject and i guess you accomplished what you state as your purpose it summarizes arguments for allowing christian homosexuality not for me the most noble goal but you are writing a faq i wonder if you might temporize the apparent sentence of the specific homosexual you propose arguably tenuously define the danger in advising christians to depend upon such a change is clear when conversion doesn t happen which is almost always the people are often left in despair feeling excluded from a church that has nothing more to say but a requirement of life long celibacy perhaps that would be true of celibacy from homosexual relations or refrainng from their choice relationships but that does not forbid heterosexual could they not have enjoy heterosexual relations for what it was worth this depends upon the person in some cases i think the answer is no even with those who could consider what you re asking i assume we re talking about marriage i certainly would not want to suggest sex outside that you re talking about a permanent commitment to a kind of sexual relationship that they aren t really sure they can live with there may be people for whom this is a possible solution but i wonder whether it s entirely fair to the other partner i have a cousin who was a victim of exactly this situation we found out later after her death that her husband had had problems with his sexual identity his family conservative christians knew it and pushed him into getting married he continued having problems and they were near divorce she died in an accident whose circumstances some of the relatives consider odd he has since had a sex change operation and has been moving around from state to state without being able to hold a job keeping their children in a kind of home life both sets of grandparents consider irresponsible i hope you can understand why i am not enthusiastic about pushing homosexuals into marriage i really liked my cousin this is sort of an emotional issue for me again it may be possible for some but this is the sort of situation that needs to be dealt with pastorally and not as a matter of fixed ideology clh
