By Kinship Communications on Thursday, 23 April 2015
Category: News Updates

Yes, Homosexuality Absolutely Is a Choice

John Pavlovitz, Rogue Pastor and Writer |Posted: 

Confession time.

To all of my Christian brothers and sisters who insist that homosexuality is a choice, I need to break down and finally admit something: I agree with you.
 
I believe that it absolutely is a choice too, only not in the way that you may have meant.

But I guess that's largely the crux of the problem we have here. I think you use your terms too loosely without really thinking them through. When you say quite matter-of-factly that homosexuality is a choice, I'm not sure you really know in that moment, just what you mean by "homosexuality".

Far too often Christian, when you make the statement that being gay is a sin, what you're really doing without realizing it is reducing all LGBT people down to a sex act -- as if that alone defines sexuality.

You're denying any emotional component in their lives, any capacity to feel real love or show genuine affection toward someone else.

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