I can hear my children who have not been born yet asking me the question already. It’s just one of many questions that they ask me constantly. I’d like to think it’s just my psyche getting me ready for when it happens for real. It really comes to light now though as I read this post on Nashville is Talking. It actually quotes another post from another blog as follows:
What if Christians are wrong about Homosexuality? What if it is not a choice?
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What if tremendous scientific research proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Homosexuality is a normal occurrence? What if its nature and not nurture?
To be honest, I didn’t know that as a Christian I believed that homosexuality is a choice. That leads me to believe he’s wrong about Christians generally. He’s just stereotyping..
This Christian (Marc points at Marc) for instance has no friggin’ idea why homosexuals have same sex tendencies. I’m not a scientist, a sociologist or a psychologist. But here’s what I do think. I think people like Bill O’Reilly have it wrong that there must be one end all, be all explanation for why it happens. Isn’t it just possible that just maybe different people that have same sex tendencies have them for different reasons? Isn’t it possible that in a virtual plethora of reasons, all of them might hold true for at least one person or another? If that’s true then people are fighting over nothing. Get over it. Quit trying to find who or what’s to blame and let’s get one with our lives. So what I am saying that the inclination toward homosexuality is not necessarily a choice. I don’t know what causes it. To be honest, I don’t really care. On the other hand, giving in to the temptation of these inclinations, just like any other temptation is a choice. I know that to be true, because as a sinner I give in to one temptation or another so often.
Now, what I am going to tell my kids? Well, I have a few more years to figure that out. If I come up with something good, I’ll let you know. Whatever it is, I know it needs to be an answer that’s charitable. Young impressionable minds need to hear words of love, not hate.
I would like to thank Cole for bringing this up. I hope it makes someone out there not think of Christians as haters.
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OK Dude…..If it was that easy I would. The only option to do something like that is to add those addresses to the exclusion. I’ve had a similar problem with posts about abortion. I would add addresses from pro abortion ads to the filter only to find there were plenty such ads to go around. Google limits the exclusion filter to 200 addresses. That keeps it form being really feasible to censor what’s being displayed in the ads. So I have pretty much given up on trying to monitor it. I have also thought about removing the ads. The problem with that is that revenue from the ads almost pays for the hosting I use. While I could easily afford it, should I have to? I’ve thought a lot about it. But I haven’t really made a decision. Your complaint is certainly food for thought in the debate going on in my mind.
It’s really too bad that one one is doing a similar ad program that is built upon Christian faith. It wouldn’t have to be focused on religion or a religious aspect. If there was an ad program out there like Adsense that I knew wouldn’t show ads that would advertise products or services that are against my faith and beliefs, I would use it.