Homosexuality driven by Hollywood
Sadly, the world of today is completely embroiled within the realm of the material: the world, the flesh, and the devil. Physical beauty, strength, and endurance are prized possessions.
Once you have asked for the guidance of Jesus Christ, you will be reborn through the Fire of the Holy Spirit. As at Pentecost, your heart will be filled - and you’re deepest longings will be satisfied. As Peter said during his speech at the Descent of the Holy Spirit: “…and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.” Then, your attachment to all the useless things of this life will be loosened, you will Trust in the Lord, and will seek your solace in Him alone.
One thing I constantly noticed, in the gay lifestyle and in porn, is that everyone’s heads were always twisted downwards – to the ground, the earth, and to the base of humanity. Men, lined across the wall of a sex club, were forever gazing downward, endlessly looking and admiring their genitals; porn addicts straining their necks, staring down at the glowing monitor. It was a posture of egotism, depression, and surrender.
Author: Joseph Sciambra was born in 1969, in Northern California, not far from San Francisco. He grew up in a stable and loving home while attending Catholic parochial schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Early on, the dark shadow of pornography would cloud his entire childhood and teenage years. Throughout the 1990s, Joseph lived around the homosexual culture of the Castro District, offering him rare insight into the daily lives and struggles of many gay men. Later, he became an amateur porn actor and escort. In 1999, following a near death experience, Joseph returned to the Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. Since then he has written extensively concerning the real-life issues of pornography, homosexuality, and the occult. He received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Art History and his MA from Sonoma State University.
Man relies solely upon the tangible for happiness: large homes, sports cars, and designer clothes. In the homosexual community, this phenomenon is intensified as boys who go into the gay lifestyle invariably throw off all that symbolized their traumatic past: religion, family, and home, in favor of an all new set of paradigms – symbolized by the worship of Hollywood film and music stars as their latest gods.
And, with porn addiction, the victim ties his mind to the wires and circuitry of the hard drive and keyboard; often spending hours at a time – trying vainly to push his way into the computer screen; currently embodied by the contemporary popularity of interactive porn/sex toys. Ultimately, these things are shallow and transitory; fading, falling into disrepair, and vanishing from sight. Yet, the more these false idols fail us - the more we tend to depend upon them.
We become desperate. Strangely enough, the answer is always with us: for the Lord never leaves our side. He is waiting for you there; all you have to do is call out to Him.
Once you have asked for the guidance of Jesus Christ, you will be reborn through the Fire of the Holy Spirit. As at Pentecost, your heart will be filled - and you’re deepest longings will be satisfied. As Peter said during his speech at the Descent of the Holy Spirit: “…and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.” Then, your attachment to all the useless things of this life will be loosened, you will Trust in the Lord, and will seek your solace in Him alone.
One thing I constantly noticed, in the gay lifestyle and in porn, is that everyone’s heads were always twisted downwards – to the ground, the earth, and to the base of humanity. Men, lined across the wall of a sex club, were forever gazing downward, endlessly looking and admiring their genitals; porn addicts straining their necks, staring down at the glowing monitor. It was a posture of egotism, depression, and surrender.
A constant looking inward at the flesh for satisfaction, a sudden and horrifying crash when the physical pleasure instantaneously dissipated, and a sapping of the will and eventual slavery in service to our grossest whims and appetites. This sorrowful state will often brings us down low; sometimes even to the point of death. But, then, God has shown us the way. For, we are now broken. He called the humble and the faithful, those that He had healed, and the boy who remained unafraid. We must strive to be all of these things; for, one day, we may hear the words: “Well done, good and faithful servant…”
