If Anything, I Pity Them

There has been an incessant media blitz about LGBT issues these past few months.  Along with those have been firestorms of controversy on social media.  People who have voiced their criticism of the lifestyle have been called haters and bigoted, whether their reaction was reasoned, logical disagreement or venom-filled satire.  I disagree with LGBT lifestyles.  I do not hate them.  If anything, I pity them.  They're confused at best, and living in a society that encourages that confusion.

I subscribe to a specific vision of human sexuality and its role in family and society.  Any practices that deviate from that vision are, well, deviant.  The primary biological function of sexuality is to beget and bear children, and to form matrimonial bonds which create the best possible environment for those children's development.  To put it in different terms, that's one man and one woman in a permanent monogamous relationship to bear and raise children.  Children raised by loving parents have no end of benefits over those raised in other environments.

We've been breaking that vision as a society for over eighty years.  There has been a slow and steady progression of divorcing the primary end of sexuality from the act, and it has led us down a path that now rejects the existence of the connection in the first place.  It began with birth control and has progressed to divorce, pre-marital sex, abortion, rejection of marriage, acceptance and now celebration of LGBT lifestyles.  And this is despite the obvious facts of reproductive biology and thousands of years of history staring them in the face.

I admire those who, despite attractions to the LGBT lifestyle, resist its siren call.  I've read numerous stories of those who have suffered with same sex attraction who were cured of it.  I've read other stories of those who suffer with it, and the attraction endures.  I've read stories of reformed transsexuals.  It is a difficult path, no matter what choice they make.  In the end, though, choosing the LGBT lifestyle will not bring them the joy and the rest they seek.  And that joy and that rest is what my wish is for them.  I do not hate them.  They have a heavy cross to bear.