Orlando Enrique Fiol
Nov 6 · 2 min read

You are conflating many issues that I’ll try to sort out. First, just because you’ve been lucky not to suffer health problems from anal sex doesn’t mean it’s safe. Similarly, just because I’ve never been in a plane crash doesn’t negate the risks everyone takes when flying.

Second, practices such as slavery, bygamy, foot binding, etc., are inherently unnatural because they subjugate entire populations. Those cultural practices were imposed by the powerful on the powerless, rather than chosen by all members of society. However, homosexuality is not the dominant sexual orientation in any culture because a vast majority of Earthlings are either heterosexual or don’t consider homosexuality to be statistically significance in terms of frequency.

Third, the only Christian-sanctioned prohibition related to homosexuality pertains to entering into the Kingdom of Heaven. Nowhere did Jesus advocate the destruction, social ostracization or discrimination against homosexuals. Even if we grant that homosexuality is a sin, our job is to love everyone, sinners included. Our job is not to purify the planet of everything that goes against God’s commandments. That’s God’s job to do as He will in His own time and manner. Therefore, even a fundamentalist interpretation of Christian theology regarding homosexuality shouldn’t impact your life at all. Since you seem entirely disinterested in the afterlife, when you die, that will be it and everyone will move on.

The only reason why these stupid debates persist is that Christians like to play judge, jury and executioner, rather than leave such duties to the Lord. The only reason we still debates the merits of homosexuality is because of what is so often implicit in those evaluations — namely — the justification for cruelty of all kinds against homosexuals. If Christians kept to ourselves and concentrated on loving one another, homosexuals wouldn’t even know our views on their sexual orientation. Christians expound those views because condemnation packs quite a power punch, making people feel superior to one another, high and mighty. If anything, Jesus taught that all individual and systematic superiority only drives a wedge between humanity and divinity, that the greatest master is the humblest servant.

The next time some yahoo wants to engage you in anti-homosexual debate, politely insist that, regardless of God’s declarations regarding homosexuality, it is not our place to translate any of those pronouncements into hostility of any kind. This understanding precludes all types of discrimination, isolation, guilting, shaming, seclusion, slander and violence.

    Orlando Enrique Fiol

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    Totally blind, Hispanic-Italian, , happily engaged, Christian pianist/keyboardist, hand percussionist, doctor of music theory. Email: ofiol@verizon.net