The GOPs

GAYNESS PROBLEM

Many are now saying that the GOP should drop the hard line against gay marriage and not hang their horse on that issue everywhere, to mix a few metaphors.

The hardcore scripture reading morality teachers like clerics have read scripture that says in the latter days there will people who trade normal sexual relations with attractions for their same gender, which is not something Jesus said but it is scriptural and it was said by an authority we recognize as speaking God's word. So naturally they feel it their obligation to make sure everyone knows it is a slip and fall down the slippery slope to gommorrah in their view.
Fair enough, it is their job. If you are a person who believes scripture to be true and accurately the word of God you take that to heart.

There is, however, a growing body of scientific literature statistically suggesting that gayness proclivity can be tied to three (four depending on what you read) factors including genes, hormonal balances and ability to produce hormones and birth order. There is a body of scientific literature that says that women when they are pregnant with a male have to emit antigens into the placenta so that the male hormonal features of a male fetus are not read as a foreign body and expelled while developing in miscarriage which antigens neutralize masculin development. So the theory is that the younger or later born males, in a family with several older first born males will generate statistically more gay males due to the stronger presence of these antigens that the woman's body makes to avoid miscarriage. Google it- YouTube it- I am not medically savvy enough to make it up. They have also found that fraternal twins have a much higher incidence of sibling gayness than non fraternal twins which suggests to researchers that there is a genetic component we have yet to discover.

The further proof that it is something that is intrinsic to a person that they cannot merely pray away is in the fact that in the animal kingdom many many species naturally gay pair and couple notwithstanding it does nothing to propagate the species.

It is possible, and it makes a certain degree of sense that God would create gay people who would not be bound or distracted or necessarily homebound by their own procreation to assist in advancing the species. Similar rationale one could find in justifying a family-less single celibate priesthood not house bound to their own family.

All that is to say, Cheney's married gay daughter and the log cabin Republicans aside, that gayness is not a well understood topic and so pontificating on it by people not runnnig for Pastor in Chief is misplaced and should be avoided if one doesn't want to sound sanctimoniously ignorant.
I don't think God's term of office is up for anyone's election.

Its very possible that God made some gay that way and very possible some chose it-who is to say all gay got that way the same way? The passage above that says in the latter days there will be people who turn away from their normal sexual relations and orientations does not logically negate the possibility that a small fraction of society is already born that way. What it should say is if you are not genetically born that way, don't try this at home boys and girls. Don't imitate those small percentage of gay people if you are not. It's not a cultural fad that should be copied- if you are born straight, stay straight. If you are born Gay- we don't have any business discriminating against you. That is a consistent reading isn't it?