The gay community is well known for claiming that homosexuality is not a choice. Many Christians are adamant that it is. The way I see it, the homosexual lifestyle is filled with choices but the urges behind them are due to a specific disposition of sin related by direct consequence from the Fall.
What's interesting about this to me is that in a way I feel that the gay community is right here. They don't choose to be sinners in the first place--they are sinners in the first place. Just a specific kind of sinner. And of course so am I even though my issues may be different from theirs. Yet what gets me is that many in the gay community simulatneously have a HUGE problem with the concept of election. It seems they would like homosexuality to be classified as "not a choice" but all things related to faith must be a "choice." Has anyone else here noticed the same irony in dealing with the gay rhetoric?
What's interesting about this to me is that in a way I feel that the gay community is right here. They don't choose to be sinners in the first place--they are sinners in the first place. Just a specific kind of sinner. And of course so am I even though my issues may be different from theirs. Yet what gets me is that many in the gay community simulatneously have a HUGE problem with the concept of election. It seems they would like homosexuality to be classified as "not a choice" but all things related to faith must be a "choice." Has anyone else here noticed the same irony in dealing with the gay rhetoric?