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.
It is people like these men discussed above which bother the activist homosexual community. They want to say that all there are there by nature. This is clearly false. There are at least some in that community who are there because of social pressure. In some case that social pressure is social escape, but social pressure all the same. It is a lie to say that there is no choice in being homosexual. For at least some there is a choice, and for many who made the choice there is repentance and the chance to lead lives according to the requirements of Holy Scripture.
The political and religious liberals, want to quiet the voice of the former homosexual. This is done by attacking the motives of the speaker. That one in the past engaged in some behavior does not silence their right to speak on the topic.
This whole idea that upholding the teaching of Holy Scripture is the repression of one’s natural inclination is totally bogus. It may be true sometimes, but it not universally applicable. It is not even universally applicable with those who have left the homosexual lifestyle.
I know that there are many liberals both political and religious who will always portray anyone who speaks against the homosexual acts as repressed homosexual. It is a cheap political trick but it does to a degree work. I wrote a blog piece Homosexuality and Reason. As I should have expected the claims of being a repressed homosexual were quickly made. I with this am doing my part to resist political hacks.
