we had a vituperative attack on poor young Victoria Stean, because
she had the temerity to put forward an alternative point of view; now
Geoff Bacchus has popped up (in `Decent Family Life') with his rant
about our `evil' government and the `abomination' of homosexuality.
I have a mental picture of men of a certain age (and it invariably
seems to be men) turning puce with rage and foaming at the mouth
as they hammer the keyboard, raging about the latest, usually
invented, injustice of modern society.
government is evil. It did of course start an illegal war, founded on a
lie and in the face of public opinion, that has led to the deaths of
tens of thousand of innocent people. Geoff though thinks it is evil
because it put obstacles in the way of the annual raft race. Hmmm -
an unusual perspective I would have thought.
there's one thing I don't quite understand about his line of reasoning.
Geoff professes to be a Christian (of the fire and brimstone variety it
would seem from his references to the Kingdom of Hell) so by
definition must believe in, and be subservient to, an omnipotent,
omniscient and omnipresent God. In other words what God wants,
God gets. Homosexuals can't therefore be accidents; they must be
His/Her creation. It's usually at this point someone trots out the
argument about free will but that doesn't really work here.
Homosexual men don't choose to find other men sexually attractive
any more than heterosexual men choose to find women attractive;
they just do. So it follows that homosexuals are the children of
Geoff's God and have as much right to be here, and live their lives
free from persecution, as the rest of us.
but really, if they are honest, they only have two options. Whilst they
might not understand why, and no matter how unpalatable it might
be for them personally, either they must just shrug their shoulders
and accept that their God is always right. Or, if their bigotry is more
important to them than their religion, they have to conclude that their
God is just plain wrong. If they choose the second option can they
then, in all faith, worship the Christian God?
close eye on Him to make sure He doesn't stray from the correct path.