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The following is an excerpt from http://thetruthsetsyoufree.wordpress.com/gay-birds-and-bees-is-homosexuality-really-unnatural/
The Oslo Natural History Museum
recently opened the world’s first exhibit documenting cases of
“homosexual” behavior in nature. The exhibit suggests that because
animals such as penguins, parrots, beetles, whales, giraffes, and
others display certain behaviors that could be construed as
homosexual, then homosexuality among humans cannot be viewed as
“unnatural.” One of the statements on the exhibit reads: “We may
have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is
clear-homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is
not against nature” (Doyle, 2006).
In response to such thinking,
several points need to be considered. Humans are not
animals. There is no documented evidence
verifying the false idea that humans evolved from lower organisms
(see Harrub and Thompson, 2002). In fact, all observable evidence
verifies that humans maintain a completely unique status in regard
to their mental, emotional, and cognitive components (see “In the
Image…,” 2001; Lyons and Thompson, 2002). To justify human
behavior based on behavior observed in the animal world exhibits a
grotesque ignorance of everything humans understand about
morality. Ten percent of the diet of an adult Komodo
dragon often consists of its cannibalizing young Komodo dragons.
Would anyone be so irrationally disturbed as to suggest that
because we see infant cannibalism in Komodo dragons it is a natural
practice for humans that cannot be classified as “unnatural”? The
ploy to justify homosexuality by suggesting that it is “natural” is
little more than an attempt to cast aside all moral
constraints and debase society to the point of
mindless bestiality.
In truth,
homosexuality is against nature, that is, the natural way that
God designed humans to
function. The inspired apostle Paul
condemned homosexuality as a sin:
For this reason God gave them up to
vile passions. For even their women exchanged the
natural use for what is
against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for
one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and
receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due
(Romans 1:26-27).
Homosexuality goes against
human nature in at least two fundamental ways.
First, on a basic physical, anatomical level, homosexuality
disregards the natural use of the sexual organs of men and women.
Humans were designed to
be sexually compatible in order to reproduce and bear
offspring (see Genesis 1:28). If homosexuality were a
natural, genetic occurrence (which it is not — see Harrub and
Miller, 2004), the genes responsible for it would quickly disappear
due to the inability of same sex couples to reproduce. Second, God
designed men and women to be capable of a relationship in marriage
unlike any other human relationship. When a man and a woman are
joined together, they become “one-flesh,” a biblical phrase that
describes the epitome of intimacy and compatibility (Genesis 2:23).
God specifically designed Eve, and all future women, to be perfect
helpers suitable for Adam, and subsequent men. And, while it is
true that sinful humans often fail to achieve the intimacy and
oneness designed by God, it is not because of faulty design, but of
people’s sinful decisions. God designed men and women to be
naturally compatible both physically and
emotionally.
If human behavior can be justified
based on the idea that it mimics animal behavior, then why not
abolish all laws, allow stronger humans to kill the weaker ones,
allow mothers to eat their babies, allow men to murder sexual
rivals, allow women to murder and cannibalize their lovers after
intercourse, and simply chalk such a deplorable situation up to
“nature”? The logical consequences of such a philosophical
justification are as obvious as they are ridiculous. God
created humans, so He knows what is in accordance with human
nature, and He has clearly stated that homosexuality is aberrant,
unnatural, sinful behavior.
Doyle, Alister (2006), Birds
and Bees May Be Gay: Museum Exhibition, [On-line], URL:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/sc_nm/environment_homosexuality_
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“The Einsatzgruppen Case” (1998),
[On-line], URL: http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/mt/ndsir.html.
Harrub, Brad and Bert Thompson
(2002), “Creationists Fight Back! A Review of U.S.
News and World Report,” Reason & Revelation,
22[9]:65-71, September, [On-line], URL: http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2094.
Harrub, Brad and Dave Miller
(2004), “This is the Way God Made Me: A Scientific Examination of
Homosexuality and the ‘Gay Gene,’” Reason &
Revelation, 24[8]:73-79, August, [On-line], URL:
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2553.
Lyons, Eric and Bert Thompson
(2002), “In the Image and Likeness of God: Part 1,”
Reason & Revelation,
22[3]:17-23, [On-line]: URL: http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/123.
Animals are not moral agents. They do not have a conscience and
they are incapable of spirituality as mankind is. Animals do not
have a living relationship with God but humans do. In other words,
to discuss about homosexuality in the animal kingdom is not
relevant to our concern about sin.
We are not animals. We are made in the image of God. Amen.
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