Human Sexuality
To understand human sexuality is to understand humanity. Deep within the psyche of every human heart lays the need for self preservation; the need for food and shelter. Beyond that, deeper still, is a need to love another human being sexually, and a need to worship. The mysterious and marvelous ways of a woman and the ways of God are equally intriguing and unsettling for most men.
Consider Islamic Fascists who martyr themselves for God. They hope to receive ten virgins in paradise as a reward for their self imposed martyrdom. How odd that in this reality they would rather see their woman in a burka than a bikini, but in the afterlife a harem of scantily clad vixens will be theirs to ogle. This speaks volumes about them to me.
In our culture, conservative Christianity can be, and often is equally foolish. How easy it is for misguided clergy to mix natural sexual urges, normal fantasies, and common fetishes, with the fear of God and turn Christianity into a breeding ground for hypocrisy.
The guidelines adopted by Roman Catholic bishops concerning homosexuality are a prime example. For a priest who lives celibate (of course the jury is still out on that one) to call homosexuality “disordered” as they lay the fear of eternal condemnation on someone’s shoulders is hypocrisy at its most vulgar.
The so called celibate lifestyle of the Catholic Priest is the disordered one, the unnatural one, and just as out of touch with the will of God as the suicide bombers. Human sexuality is a divine mystery and gift from God. Of two things I am certain… hypocrisy is a far greater evil than homosexuality, and… the blood of Christ can, and will, reach the homosexual.