This is another angle that needs to be looked at as regards the homosexual debate, because I believe that it clouds the real issues at hand. Unfortunately, it is also one on which I don't really have much authority to speak. So, just to mention it here.
The media has played a useful role in humanising homosexual people in the public eye. I hope that we would all agree that the idea that people had in years gone by of homosexuals being - um, what? I'm not too sure- maybe that is the thing, people invented an idea of homosexuals as monstrosities, which wasn't very friendly.
But what is the role of the media today? What caused the Generations people to include a homosexual theme to their episodes? Was it a concern for the Gay community or was it a desire to sell their programme by shock tactics? At the end of the day, it is again dehumanising to use any sort of sex in this of way - for people to look at and marvel at and perhaps be horrified at. And when the public becomes desensitised to this, the media moves on, finding new areas that shock in order to draw in an endlessly hungry public.
I know that not all media is like this - and I do not know the motivations of the Generations people - it could be that they do have a genuine social concern, but it sounds more than a little naive to write that!
I could say more, but let me leave it here and let the reader contemplate the implications!
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Let me maybe add what little I know and place my perspective about the questions arising about gay people. Let me first say that we are ALL God’s creation and let us start there before passing judgement on actions of people, we all fall short of the Glory of God. My family members are in the medical fields where there has been much research done about, although not absolute clear clarity. What they know of is that there is a difference in the makeup of men and women’s brains from the left side and the right side which clearly describes the normal attributes and senses of both sexes. I am not a medical person and am trying to put it in my own words and understanding. When it comes to gay people the makeup predominates more on the opposite side of the sex.
Their makeup is not of their own choosing and makes it extremely difficult to cope with as a person with his or her own desires.
God on the other hand loves us all and has described for us natural relationships and mentions that which is unnatural in scripture. That poses the question, what is natural for gay people?
We need to be sensitive around there issues, need better knowledge of the “makeup” of the gay people from a medical angle. My suggestion would be that the Church looks into the research done, gives clarity on the findings and gives direction about the God that loves us all, of His Grace, forgiveness and mercy.
Personally, as I've read this debate over the past several posts, people are too much using loaded words. "Love" is one such word, just as one finds such words in other contexts, for example "racist". By using the word "love", one slaps others down. I have made the point, but perhaps not very clearly, that there are different conceptions of love in the academic debate. To plead love on one's behalf and a lack of it on others' is wanting.
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