August 17, 2007
Choices
According to the media, Angelina Jolie is now changing her preferences. With Brad Pitt in her life and for the sake of her children she decided she’s no longer bisexual. I can only imagine the reaction in the gay community when they learn Jolie is making the decision to change. In the church, as well as in the world, we’re been force fed the ‘I was born that way’ justification for homosexuality. I appreciate someone- anyone – who acknowledges their sexual lifestyle is a personal choice.
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Gail;
-----Would you accept, “I was almost born that way?” Although sexuality in humans is genetically determined, ambiguities can enter the development process. A human can develop one or more physical characteristics opposite its specific sex as chromosomally determined. As I understand it, an imbalance of testosterone/estrogen proportion for the individual’s actual sex is the cause. Minor differences of brain development are also determined by these hormones, and is one of the many other characteristics of the secondary sexual system (those characteristics slightly differentiated between the sexes, such as facial contour, waste to hip ratio, facial and body hair, skin thickness, Adam’s apple size, etc.) The secondary sexual system, and especially the effects in the brain are where ambiguities of sexual nature can become problematic for the individual born with this hormonal disproportion.
-----I can understand the tendency to claim that homosexuality is often determined at birth. The child who has the hormonal balance for the sex opposite that of its genetic determination is likely to be in for a confusing childhood and developmental process. I have watched interviews with folks who have claimed that, from their earliest childhood, they related so much more to the opposite sex they considered themselves as belonging to it instead. I remember friends in school that struck me as being that way. Gender confusion can happen as the result of an individual’s physical characteristics.
-----I also understand that it is hard to walk for the unfortunate soul born with one leg longer than the other. But he must still walk. It is hard for the person born without arms to clothe himself, but he must still clothe himself. I believe that God’s call, which brings to Him those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, is a call to accept truth and react accordingly. So I believe that those born to develop a physical confusion in their secondary sexual system are still expected to acknowledge the truth of their genetics, since any acknowledgement man does is done also before God. His mercies are there for the difficulty in doing such and for the mistakes made in trying, as well as, for sometimes failing to try.
-----One thing there is definitely not is a homosexual gene. The chromosomes are either XX or XY. Those are the only possibilities. I do not believe in homosexuality as something proceeding from birth. I believe that struggles proceed from birth, and that the struggle with sexual identity is just one of these struggles. But all struggles man faces work to some reward in the form of a strength when that struggle is engaged by godliness and effort in humbleness to the truth. It is ok to reflect the sex of your genetics, even if there be no God. It is necessary to reflect it since there is. As you know, all choices sum up to just one choice -- will you acknowledge God, or not. And God is truth.
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