Homosexuality question

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Aquila

The original question was...



Here was my answer...

All sin is an "abomination". While many rant and rave over homosexuality and it's sinfulness, few adequately explain "why" it is a sin.

God is love. God only desires that we love others as ourselves. Homosexuality doesn't manifest "love" as God desires. In the vast majority of cases it only manifests varying degrees of lust and self serving fraternity. When one realizes the depth to which they have allowed themselves to use others and be used by them, only then will they begin to see why it isn't pleasing to a God who is truly "love".

Essentially, isn't this the core of all sexual sin? The gratuitous use and abuse of self and others for selfish gratification? Such is void of true love.

One cannot truly love their neighbor... and continue to use them to fulfill carnal lusts as though they are objects to gratify the flesh and self.

Can anyone else contribute additional insight to the original question?

Yeah, because, as we all know, heterosexuality has none of those problems.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Yeah, because, as we all know, heterosexuality has none of those problems.

Of course heterosexuals have these very same problems. The ethic is deeply spiritual and isn't so much grounded in defining sexual sin as a specific action (our sexuality and sexual expression being a blessing), but rather it is the state of our hearts and our intentions in any given sex act that makes it sin or a celebration.

Intrinsically, homosexuality struggles to attain the ideal expression of love as God intended it. Just as incest, seeing that it is intrinsically exploitive in nature.

Sex is designed to be a beautiful expression of love, desire, and union. When any sexual act fails to exhibit this expression, it is sin.

Perhaps a study on the Quaker Christian ethics towards sin and sexuality can shed light on what I'm trying to say and express it more clearly. I've found their interpretation of Scripture and morality to be rather enlightening.