Christianity the New Disease. Tempting! Ever so tempting!
It is so tempting to point out a few little details, like while Christians from places like the Family Research Council like to claim that there is a relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia, there are also theories about child abuse victims becoming homosexuals. How about the theory that everyone is a homosexual at some point in life? Early on, children are attracted to individuals of the same gender, primarily to “learn” how to act as a normal member of said gender. (That theory can be considered a basis for the previous one on abuse victims – if one goes through that stage early in life, couldn’t abuse disrupt development beyond it? Or how about homosexuality as a “learned behavior” of children that were abused by individuals of the opposite gender?)
Too many questions, and too few definitive answers. Was the ruling really about protecting homosexuality, or was it about playing the probabilities that foster children (even very young ones) could have confusion about gender issues? Was it about hurting a good Christian couple, or protecting already abused children from inadvertent psychological damage from that same couple? Who knows? Maybe if we got some real answers to those questions about the relationship between child abuse (all kinds, not just sexual) and homosexuality, we could worry more about the rights of those good Christian people. For now? Maybe the Brits went too far, but the point that it’s not a “good” thing to teach damaged children intolerance regardless of the reason is legitimate.
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