Are homosegxwals born homosegxwal or is it a choice they make?

The modern world culture has made the delight in and the practice of homosegxwal acts the defining criteria for a new category of humans who are neither male nor female as God made us, but a new kind of being that is equal in all respects to normal humans.

There have always been persons of both sexes who have found themselves in the predicament of being attracted to others of the same sex more than those of the opposite sex. “For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 19:12) It did not follow automatically that they defiled themselves segxwally with others of the same sex. In fact, true manly love between men, such as David and Jonathan, was not homosegxwal as many claim, even though their love was as strong as or even stronger than the love between a man and a wife. This intensity of love does not necessarily include the performance of homosegxwal acts. People don’t want to accept this, but rather, they read into manly (or womanly) love a homosegxwality that is not intrinsically there. All homosegxwal desires and the acts that issue from them are a matter of free choice. Born eunuchs they may be, born gays they are not.

The mistake of modern man is to take one kind of response to this predicament and champion it, making it out to be the norm, the way that God intended people to be, and then pushing it on people who find themselves in this predicament. This is especially criminal when it is done within the public school system. Now that the culture hardly knows the scriptures or the tradition of the Church, now that it rejects reason and wisdom, even parents are confused and give in to it when their children decide that they are ‘gay.’ They have bought a bill of goods that robs them of their freedom to choose, and their children become the victims as well.

But we were not created for sinful acts or sinful covetousness. God does not create people in a way that it is unavoidable for them to be saved because of sin. He revealed in many places and times and to all people, really, that the abuse of sex is sinful, and that it stems from an attitude of contempt for God and worship of what is not God.

“Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to segxwal impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.” (Romans 1:22-27)

I wonder if even the Church remembers and knows that preference for others of the same sex does not automatically define the person as homosegxwal.

Soldiers and monastics are two groups of men who understand manly love as it really is. True, there are to be found some who have accepted the lie and indulged in homosegxwal desire and activity, but this is not the norm—these are sick people.

Those who follow wisdom, who follow Jesus, know what they were made for, when it is not for marriage. Both men and women who are born this way, because their love is not focused on their husbands and wives, their children and their possessions, can give, and have given, such immense love to others not related to them according to the flesh, have done such great deeds for Christ in their fellow men, that we call them ‘saints.’

The element of choice has always been present in every age, as has the element of temptation. We have met both kinds of personalities all through history.

Are the men and women “eunuchs” who followed Jesus and did not choose to express their love in an unlawful and destructive way even recognized by the world system? No, they are not. But they are known to God, and to us who follow the same Lord as they did, and within the nature we have each been given, seek also to glorify with them the God who creates our souls and bodies for righteousness and not for sin.

What response would those who sympathize with the ‘gay’ community have us make to those who defiantly flaunt their sin and blaspheme their Creator with pride in their sinful choice? Welcome them as they are as full members of Christ? If a man who commits sin with a prostitute has joined himself in one flesh with her, denying his Lord, how much more is the one who defiles himself or herself by segxwal sin with a person of the same sex cut off from fellowship with the Body of Christ.

Our God is Holy, and He says to us, “Be Holy, for I am Holy.”

There is a better way to deal with this “problem” than to capitulate to a sinful choice and expression. In fact, it is not really a “problem” at all to be “born a eunuch,” but actually a blessing, because such a person can give himself or herself with full commitment to the service of Christ and Christian society.

That is, if there is still any Christian society left.

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