People who have quit smoking are some of the most anti-smoking people. Could this be because social pressure has harmed them at some time in the past? I think it reasonable that people who were hurt by social pressure to engage in harmful behavior would be strong voices to change that social pressure. Rather than being something sinister, this is the voice of experience, bad experience talking.
Without getting into the whole discussion of homosexual by nature, I know of several men who had previously engaged in homosexual acts who had exited the lifestyle. In these cases the entry into the homosexual lifestyle, was from social pressure. This is where the witness of the Church is most important. Had these men been grounded at the time in the teaching of the Church, my guess is they would have never entered the homosexual lifestyle in the first place. (more…)
