Comments on: Scientists Discover “Cure” For Same Sex Attraction

By: rick

rick — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:38:13 +0000

“But I do know that it is a sin”

How do you know that?
Is this doctrinal knowledge or something else?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:46:06 +0000

I agree with Itbugaf (to an extent). Whether or not homosexuality is a disability, I donâ€t know. But I do know that it is a sin. Therefore, â€œif we are to be preserved we must abhor them (meaning immoral behaviors), shun them, not practice the least of them, for they weaken and enervate, they kill a man (or woman) spiritually, they make him unfit for theâ€¦ presence of God.â€ (Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed., pp. 275-276.)

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:03:36 +0000

Kim, people with missing feet are still able to walk, too. But the walking is made significantly more difficult—just as the reproduction is.

Obviously you realize that sexual reproduction requires a certain enthusiasm for at least one party. Same-sex attraction makes that more difficult. It’s a disability.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:00:13 +0000

“One of the normal functions of any biological entity is to produce offspring.”

But homosexuality does not make one unable to produce offspring. They are technically still able to function as normally as any heterosexual in this regard.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:30:09 +0000

“…there are several biological adaptations which serve no good to the individual, but benefit the group as a whole.”

If this has some relevance to the current discussion, I hope you’ll try to point it out.

“I can’t really comment on being ‘spiritually disabled’ since I’m not even sure what that means.”

Maybe you should ask whoever used that term. Whom are you quoting?

By: rick

rick — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:19:02 +0000

Actually there are several biological adaptations which serve no good to the individual, but benefit the group as a whole.

Evolution will favour groups who exhibit this behaviour over other groups that do not.

In that sense, the adaptation is actually an advantage to the group of genes rather than a disability.

I can’t really comment on being ‘spiritually disabled’ since I’m not even sure what that means.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:34:41 +0000

One of the normal functions of any biological entity is to produce offspring. Attraction to members of the same sex makes this function either more difficult or impossible. Anything that makes a a normal function either more difficult or impossible is a disability.

From a gospel perspective, one of the things men and women need to do to fill the measure of their creation is to enter eternal marriage with a member of the opposite sex and become parents. Anything that makes that more difficult or impossible is a disability.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:42:59 +0000

I don’t think it’s as obvious as you seem to think it is, ltbugaf. I am with, rick on this: how are homosexuals disabled and unable to function normally because they are gay?

By: rick

rick — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:49:19 +0000

How precisely is homosexuality a physical disability?

What normal functioning is unavailable to the homosexual?

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:36:30 +0000

Both of those apply in obvious ways to homosexuality.