A news article on ABC News this week reported
Marcus Bachman, husband of republican presidential hopeful Michelle Bachman
counselled a homosexual that he could change his sexual orientation.
Homosexuality is considered a normal and acceptable practice.
The prevailing belief that homosexuality is a normal and fixed orientation,
denies the ability to change.
In fact, the reporter continued, trying to change could be
dangerous, leading to depression or even suicide when the change did not occur.
This incident stigmatized Marcus Bachman as practicing unprofessional, if not
illegal, counselling.
Simultaneously, a rerun of a Law and Order SVU episode had a
pedophile claiming that perhaps straights are the perverts, pedophlies are
normal, and “we’re not going anywhere.” As farfetched as that sounds, the scene
could have substituted a homosexual fifty years ago!
Experience in residential schools and the Catholic Church
suggest that pedophilia is as common as homosexuality. Why is this not
considered a normal orientation also? Why are attempts at “rehabilitation” continued
when they are admittedly futile and orientation is fixed?
The problem is that recognition of pedophilia as normal opens
the door to its practice. After all, if homosexual or other sexual expression
in children is acceptable, even encouraged, why should sexual relations with a willing
minor be considered statutory rape?
I am certainly not advocating pedophilia as a practice. What
worries me is the trickle down effect that the open door and confusion on
sexual identities produces. Practices now abhorred may be legitimized in the
future in the name of human rights.
Also in the news this week, Kody Brown, the producer of the
American reality show “Sister Wives” that promotes his four wives and sixteen
children, is going to court for acceptance of his polygamous relationships.
Today also marks six years of gay marriage. Apparently, according
to this morning’s headlines, “Canada hasn’t crumbled from it.” The problem is
not gay marriage itself, but what opening the marriage door is leading to
Perhaps the man who wants to marry his dog my not be so far
out after all. The news also reports this week that two monkeys in India were
secretly married a few days ago. It is illegal for monkeys to marry in India!
Last time I checked, freedom of conscience, speech and religion
were still an option to the increasingly doubtful assortment we are driving towards.
