WHERE DID ALL THESE "GAY" PEOPLE COME FROM?

Where did all of these "gay" people come from? Is it me or is there suddenly a large number of gay people everywhere you look? Did they all come out of the "closet" at once? Were they always there? What is going on here? it seems that this has become very popular and stylish of late.

Homosexuality was always with us, going back to ancient times. Is this a behavior a choice... a preference, as it were, or is this inclination something that people are "born with?" In other words, are people homosexuals by choice or against their own will? Tough question, especially today with the current mindset.

I know that today it is politically incorrect and downright rude to say that homosexuality is an aberration of choice or a sexual dysfunction, especially if one if coming from a religious point of view. That would be way too judgmental. After, all why should we impose our views (or God's views, as we understand them) on others? Don't people have a right to do with their own bodies whatever they like, including take drugs, commit adultery, commit incest, marry their sister or their aunt, as long as everyone is of age (whatever we decide that is) and consents? That would seem to be the prevailing view. Sexuality is a choice, right? And one should have freedom of choice when it comes to these "private" things. Right?

Homosexuality used to be viewed as psychosis and until the 1970s was listed in the psychiatric manual as a treatable psychiatric disorder. What has happened since then? Well, for one thing, the government does not want the added and expensive burden of having to pay for counseling to gay people in an attempt try to re-orient themselves sexually so that they can become straight. There are so many other things to deal with that are life threatening and so why waste valuable health care resources on such things as one's sexual preferences? This expensive treatment would be required if homosexuality remained listed as as disorder since that is the criteria by which the government operates. "If it is in the manual than we have to treat it because that is what we do. We treat stuff in the manual."

OK, so criticizing homosexuality from a religious point of view is out of the question based on what we just stated. My values are not yours and so you are free to reject them in a world where God is not believed to exist or religion is rendered so subjective that it is only personal and private such it should not be shared in public. From a medical point of view it is out of the question, too, since it is technically (we are told) no longer considered a disorder. One wonders what technological changes and breakthroughs in medical science have caused that amendment to the manual. It seems that we knew about this issue for a very long time. Oh, it is politically and economically motivated, you say? So many "gays" are now out there that protest being called aberrant that we should just change the norm because they vote! I get it. But consider why this is being done. There is no medical or psychological reason to change the diagnosis, only cultural reasons born out by the fact that people simply want to hear it explained differently. This is considered enlightenment. After all, who doesn't know and love someone who is "gay." It would be so terrible to make them feel sad about what they like to do. They would object.

If one does not believe in a God as the creator of the Universe and an objective static morality what is then left? Evolution! Yes, that is the supreme force of nature that seems to posses magical powers to create all things by natural selection and random mutations. This impersonal force has no value system of "right" and "wrong;" it just does whatever is best for the "survival of the fittest." That would explain the evolution of morality, at least. Morality evolves so that people can reach consensus as to what behaviors we like (and accept) and what we don't. Do to its popularity, currently, homosexuality is "in" and making judgments about what other people do is "out." We the people have voted it this way! True "scientific" Evolution, on the other hand, makes no value judgments but simply promotes the hard realities about what causes the species to survive and thrive. In the case of mankind, Evolution will do whatever is best to ensure the survival and continuation of the species. Don't want God? Evolution is your "fall back position" because it allows all of the creative power of God yet it allows you to make whatever choices you want without fear of answering to anybody. There is no church, no group of bearded elders to look askance at your lifestyle, no God to have to face in the final judgement. Whew! Glad we don't have to deal with that anymore. No more of that "invented" fiction meant to control people by those who, well, like to control people. Who doesn't want to sign on to that? It would be great on some level if it were true. Mankind is adept at such mental machinations and so God is just deemed to be a construct that we can all agree was invented so others can set limits on our behavior. But it could also be the other way around and true that we invented atheism (no God) to make us feel better about what we want to do and will likely do anyway. After all, it is not much fun to live indiscriminately if we really believe someone is watching us and making value judgments about what we do, it it? That would be a strong motive to un-invent God and justify a lifestyle. It just depends on how you view it. Motivation is a factor here.

The problem with Evolution, as far as the gay issue is concerned, though, is that homosexual behavior actually militates against the survival of the human race, not in favor of it. It is counterproductive to the propagation of mankind for the simple and obvious reason that gay people don't reproduce. Two copulating men simply cannot have children. No shock there. Thus, it runs counter to a core tenet of evolutionary theory which is that the organism will find a way to reproduce. Life will find a way. Now, if two men suddenly start having children naturally this will be proven wrong but I really don't think so.

Why then is gay behavior so readily accepted by people who have no religious beliefs and who applaud and accept Evolution as the "god" who creates and superintends all things? That makes no sense. It makes no "scientific" sense. I would really like someone to explain this to me. And, if Evolution is working the way it should by weeding out bad (i.e. non propagating behaviors) why is there such a proliferation of gay people in current times? The numbers are growing and it is no secret that gay people are now everywhere. They even are insisting that they be allowed to marry one another. This is yet another way to seriously discourage reproduction: committed binding homosexual unions with religious overtones! That type of monogamy would literally ensure they never produce kids. Evolution, you are going the wrong way. You need to make a U-turn.

Evolution teaches that there are "random mutations" in a species that occur for a variety of reasons. Could it be that the proliferation of gay people has nothing to do with evolution and people being "born that way" but is simply a function of the number of sexually mutant people out there that have been produced by the proliferation of dysfunctional homes, drug abuse and destructive living environments? Does the rise of sexual promiscuity, generally, and the number of fractured homes and dysfunctional parents contribute to this phenomena? Does sexuality, at its best, have to be modeled by a "normal" two parent (one man and one woman ) household for children to learn healthy sexual behavior? Are the body's natural sexual urges altered by improper programming borne of a bad environment.? Does early age sexual abuse or sexual experimentation skew the future sexuality of the person? These are legitimate questions and solid non politically motivated answers would explain a lot.

Dysfunction was always out there and so was homosexuality but we have not seen it at these levels in centuries, perhaps millennia. Could the breakdown in society have anything to do with this?

We are mostly all wired sexually from birth with essentially the same hardware. The triggers for sexuality, on the other hand, are in the brain somewhere and are more akin to "programming" and "software" rather than the hardware which all of the same sex generally share. Perhaps the software or the programming is askew in the population from the general decline in morals, the overall breakdown of the traditional family and the erosion of the tried and tested two parent family unit. With more stresses on the families these days (moms working, detached fathers not home, people having affairs, negative and salacious entertainment, the readily available pornography on the Internet, early age sexual experimentation and other graphic sexual inputs into our young brains (our "software"), can it possibly be that this is effecting vast numbers of people in weird and negative ways, sexually?

If I am right, the population percentage of homosexuals will continue to rise and the traditional family unit model of one man and one wife committed to each other for life will continue to decline and destruct until we will see all types of weird sexual and family behaviors passing for "normal' because it WILL BE THE NORM and, after all, we cannot dictate to anyone what is best for them or society. Or can we?

Is it wrong or unloving to try to counsel someone out of destructive behavior? Cannot tough love be able to point out another path? Isn't is indeed possible to love someone dearly and yet be grieved at the lifestyle choices they make, whether it be a promiscuous uncle that is married three or four times and has no relationship with his kids or a daughter who decides to marry her female college roommate because it is now chic to do that.

Think about it.