Posted by
TheChair on Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:16:55 PM
Andrew Tallman at Townhall.com wrote the best, clearest and most succinct rebuttal to the several "born that way" fallacies used as justification for acting out homosexual urges. I suggest those interested should become familiar with his unassailable points.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AndrewTallman/2008/07/31/five_logical_errors_of_the_born_gay_ideology?page=full&comments=true
To summarize:
1. Homosexual activists can hardly claim inability to change in a day of medical miracles, psychological therapies, and in a day where the gospel of "choice" justifies even sex changes. If doctors can change patient's sex, then why not mere orientation?
2. Homosexual urges are not irresistible. Tallman writes:
[t]he desire to have gay sex does not compel anyone to actually ever have gay sex. One may not be able to control who attracts him, but he can certainly control who he has sex with. Consider the non sequitur of a gay man offering to explain last night’s particular sexual encounter by saying, “Well, I was born gay, you know." Free will is precisely the capacity to resist a carnal urge. If a gay person can refrain from sex even once, he has shown such free will. Thus, sexual choices devolve to him, not to his inborn disposition...
3. Being born gay does not mean acting on it is good. Tallman argues the once self-evident point that strong desires do not justify behavior, or else "the study of ethics would be nothing more than the articulation of our impulses."
4. Being "born gay" should not be viewed as the sum, limit and definitive center of one's identity.
5. It is fallacious to suppose that "God must have made me this way." Tallman says this is the most scandalous of the five fallacies, and I agree. Extending this fallacy would blame God for all the misery in the universe... autism, birth defects, dwarfism, whatever. Worse, Tallman says, it justifies acting on original sin rather than trying to conquer it. This is the spring water of calling good, evil, and evil, good.