Day of Silence 2011

The Day of Silence, the GLSEN yearly student protest against LGBT discrimination, is Friday April 15th this year. The opposing Day of Truth, started by the ADF in 2005, and run unspectacularly last year by Exodus International (the homosexual cure app people), appears to have died a quiet unlamented death and then was resurrected by Focus on the Family as The Day of Dialogue. It will be April 18th.

A different name but the same concept that homosexuality is a choice that Jesus and Christianity can help you overcome.

Now, in my last conversation about this a Christian claimed that this was a question of Free Will. If one had Free Will, they could choose not to be homosexual in the same way that they could choose not to steal or murder.

Well, that sort of depends upon what you mean by “not be homosexual.”

If you mean refrain from participating in homosexual acts, then yes, that is apparently a Free Will choice and even the American Psychology Association (APA) agrees that homosexuality can be suppressed.

But why should someone choose to suppress it?

If it’s part of who you are and not simply what you choose to do, and it doesn’t harm anyone else, then why should someone suppress his or her sexual inclinations?

It all comes back to the question of morality. Civilized human beings have developed a code of things that are considered immoral. It’s not a static definition either. It changes with time.
Just about any sane person would agree that, without some form of justification, killing, theft and lying are bad. Most people would also agree that slavery, racial discrimination and racial segregation are also bad but, within my lifetime, there were millions of people that argued that racial segregation was not only not a bad thing, but the moral thing.

The line moves over time. Not that long ago interracial marriage was illegal in many states and gay marriage was illegal everywhere. Now interracial marriage is legal in all states and gay marriage is legal in a few states.

Free Will allows you to choose what you do but not who you are. One cannot choose to be tall, green-eyed, handsome or intelligent. You’re sort of stuck with the genetic cards you’re dealt.

My father was left handed and he told me that when he went to school the teachers tried to get him to favor his right hand for things like writing because that was the “right way” to do it. That sounds ridiculous today doesn’t it? I imagine in the future things like The Day of Dialogue will sound just as ridiculous.