What's your background?

[DeistPaladin]

I think it's interesting to note that the one issue that made me begin questioning God was homosexuality. I couldn't get around this problem: If people can be born as homosexuals (and I never denied that this is the case), and if homosexuality is immoral based on doctrine and the Bible, what does that say about God?

They're already starting to adapt their arguments about homosexuality, since the jury really isn't out on the issue of whether or not it's innate as a characteristic. The local dean of the Southern Baptist seminary once wrote that homosexuality was a result of humanity's "fall from grace" and this is one of the ways that "sin" entered into the world. Hence, it can be a part of your nature and still you need to feel it's bad and something that needs to be repressed.

Really, this should come as no surprise, since Christianity regards all sex as being sinful to one degree or another. Since the days of Paul, its leaders have been obsessed with celibacy as the preferred lifestyle. The Bible even says in one of Paul's epistles that celibacy is preferable to marriage.

Arguably, other than the will to survive, there's no urge more powerful than the need for sexual gratification. That it can be a part of our nature and yet viewed as "ungodly" and "sinful" should warn us that proving the natural existence of homosexuality in both humans and animals will do nothing to discredit the taboo in the Christian's mind.

The natural world is, after all, Satan's domain. He is, as the Bible says, "the god of this world".