(For New readers of this blog I suggest that after reading this post you scroll down to the first entry and read up for some element of progression of thought)
The subject is a hot button issue, obviously, and I believe that a large part of that is the block that the word "homosexual" puts on the thinking of many simply because buzz words like "homosexual lifestyle" conjure up images of bath-houses and Gay Pride Parades with some displays of obviously profligate activity.
Put that out of your mind.
The only thing we are talking about is a committed relationship between people of the same sex who feel no attraction to people of the opposite sex.
The fact is that this is the case for a small percentage of our population and the question is whether that kind of relationship is wrong in itself.
If we hold to the idea expressed by some major denominations that the act of sex is for procreation and any participation without the possibility of procreation is wrong, then there is nothing more to be said, but the simple fact that human sexuality is different from nearly all of the animals in the world in which the possibility of procreation is the only stimulus in females for participation (let's not talk about how randy males are all the time). Hey, some animals change shape and function for the SOLE purpose of procration with the mayfly living for only one day after turning into the adult form and procreating, (there was a cartoon of a male mayfly asking a female, "What do you MEAN 'not tonight?'")
Human sexuality is different and the difference appears to be at least strongly related to bonding family units in a form of life in which the child requires a long time to develop into a being capable of working out its own livelihood. It is that secondary purpose on which we focus. In ideal circumstances it is an expression of love and devotion whether the possibility of procreation exists or not and the question is whether that expression is wrong for those to whom procration is impossible....without considering the ways in which ANY such activity can be a perversion of that secondary purpose, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
