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Well, I really do actually want to go there, as a Christian: I studied Nichomachean ethics, metaphysics, politics, in an intensive Aristotlean study ; I am schooled in Thomas Aquinas and his Natural Law theory, and am Thomistic myself, philosophically. His Summa Theologica was one of my first loves.

But we both know nature makes mistakes: The autistic, the deaf, the blind, those with juvenile diabetes: the list goes on and on. And some seem homosexual in JUST this manner. I will not doubt what experience and empirical studies have shown me. And let us face it, we are in the 21st century, and must pay heed to sociological and neuro-brain science studies and a plethora of social advances.

For the rest, for the vast culture, heterosexuality and Natural Law theory must hold. But we will not ask the autistic to act normal. We will not demand conformity where there can be none.

The Mercy of Jesus over-rides Natural Law theory and Thomistic philosophy. But even Jesus would be appalled at the gay agenda. In summnation, then: Tolerance for the miscreant, but no celebration of a vast, vast agenda to glorify and multiply some hybrid of miscreant and normal on a global scale.

@Houghton For practical purposes, I will admit, NARTH must be suspicious of all evidence which is not concrete and indisputable, in terms of the etiology of homosexuality. And a slippery slope could easily come of what I am saying. Yet this A and B distinction is something I am certain of, having spent a lot of time with the gay community. Believe it or not, a significant minority of gays WANT to stay in the closet. I know this. Just recall, it was the cry of those who appear to have an inborn disorder, who were grabbed from the closet, and used as a vehicle which turned into a a civil rights response. It will happen so long as that tiny group A is not conceded its existence. The fight really must be social and cultural.

Okay, this clarifies. But you can’t, then, just bless your category A and tell them to enter into a homosexual relationship and that God will bless it.

If you do that then you ain’t following Thomas Aquinas or the Nichomachean Ethics. Show me where either of them says, “shoot, I’ve got this disorder and I didn’t choose it but, well, God blesses my disorder and when I act upon it, He won’t mind.”