Homosexuality is a sinful choice
JUSTIFICATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY BASED ON OBSCURE SURVEYS
Research on jail prisoners by Dr Alfred Kinsey in the USA during the 1940s gave skewed statistical evidence of 10% of the population must be gay. Kinsley also felt that gay and straight were not watertight, irreconcilable and mutually exclusive sexual orientations. He found that human sexuality is, in fact, a continuum of desires and behaviours, ranging from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. Kinsley inadvertantly verfied the truth of scripture that homosexuality is a sinful choice.
In Sexual Behaviour In The Human Male (1948), Kinsey recorded that 13% of the men he surveyed were either mostly or exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55. Twenty-five per cent had more than incidental gay reactions or experience, amounting to clear and continuing same-sex desires. Altogether, 37% of the men Kinsey questioned had experienced sex with other males to the point of orgasm, and half had experienced mental attraction or erotic arousal towards other men (often transient and not physically expressed). This clearly shows that deviant, sinful sexual behaviour exists.
A British sex survey, conducted by ICM for The Observer newspaper in 2008, found that 16% of women reported sexual contact with a woman, and 10% of men said they'd had sexual contact with another man. The survey revealed a trend to greater sexual experimentation, with 23% of 16 to 24-year-olds indicating that they had a same-sex experience. All these figures are much higher than the number of people who are exclusively gay or lesbian and who define themselves as such.
The possibility that individuals can share a capacity for both hetero and homo behaviour is an idea that was researched and documented by the anthropologists Clellan Ford and Frank Beach.
In Patterns of Sexual Behaviour (1965), they noted that certain forms of homosexuality were considered normal and acceptable in 49 (nearly two-thirds) of 76 tribal societies surveyed from the 1920s to the 1950s. They also recorded that in some aboriginal cultures, such as the Keraki and Sambia peoples of Papua New Guinea, all young men entered into a same-sex relationship with an unmarried male warrior, sometimes lasting several years, as part of their rites of passage to manhood. Once completed, they ceased all homosexual contact and assumed sexual desires for women. If sexual orientation was totally biologically pre-programmed at birth, these men would have never been able to switch to homosexuality and then to heterosexuality with such apparent ease.
These surveys clearly show that the biblical sin of homosexuality is a choice made by sinful people. In particular in PNG where there is sorcery attached to the lifestyle so homosexuality appears at the same time.
This led Ford and Beach to deduce that homosexuality is fundamental to the human species, and that its practice is substantially influenced by social mores and cultural expectations.
The evidence from these two research disciplines - sociology and anthropology - is that the incidence and form of heterosexuality and homosexuality is not fixed and universal, and that the two sexual orientations are not mutually exclusive. There is a good deal of fluidity and overlap.
The evidence of considerable cross-over between gay and straight relations comes from research that records consciously recognised and admitted desires, choices based on our sinful nature.
At the level of unconscious sinful feelings - where sinful restrained passions of our conscience are often controlled...it seems probable that very few people are 100 percent straight or gay. Most are a mixture, even if they never mentally acknowledge or physically express both sides of the sexual equation.
This picture of human sexuality empowered by sinful desires is much more complex, deviant and blurred than the traditional simplistic image of hetero and homo.
If sexual orientation has a culturally-influenced element of indeterminacy and flexibility, where this sin is promoted and legalized by vocal minorities and pushed onto governments, then the present forms of homosexuality as a choice are conditional. They are unlikely to remain the same in perpetuity as long as sin exists. As culture changes, so will expressions of sexuality.
As the taboos concerning same-sex relations may recede, more people are likely to have sinful gay sex - even if only experimentally or for a few years because of the rise of Satan's influence.
