MNIce in Minnesota
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Pseudo "gender roles" in a same-sex partnership are no substitute for the real thing.

Abusive or negligent parenting has terrible consequences. Your history is an unfortunately typical example of that - I've heard enough similar stories to realize it's practically a stereotype of the childhood of a gay person. Your relational difficulties are probably a result of that as much as anything.

The effects of prenatal and childhood exposure to hormone mimics such as bis-phenol A plasticizer are still being studied, but it's known that birth control pill metabolites released into rivers from municipal sewer systems cause serious reproductive disorders in the fish. You may have been poisoned. But in the "natural world," I've never observed homosexual activity among non-human mammals, although I've heard it happens under abnormal conditions.

Problems with the temptations of same-sex attraction are nothing new. The Bible addresses them in several places, such as I Corinthians 6, especially verse 11 (note the past tense of the verb!). In this letter, St. Paul was writing to people in a city infamous for its particularly libertine society, something like San Francisco, but the recipients of the letter had become followers of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote to encourage them to live accordingly, rather than fall again to their own lusts. Rather than trying to follow your earthly father's model, seek first to follow your Heavenly Father. Otherwise, you're trying to bridle the horse's tail instead of its head.

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