Makg Gay Okay: Robert Reilly Explas How and Why | Catholic Culture

Contents:

• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• BOOK REVIEW: MAKG GAY OKAY: HOW RATNALIZG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR CHANG EVERYTHG
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
• GAY IS OK! HOMEPAGE
• WHY GAY IS NOT OK
• AM I GAY?
• VIO: IS GAY OKAY? 10 THGS EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
• MAKG GAY OKAY: ROBERT REILLY EXPLAS HOW AND WHY

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight. Beg gay do not necsarily make you any ls mascule or feme, and there is no need or prsure to nform to stereotyp that don't feel right to you - bee you are who you are.

The laws the Bible were maly for health purpos - shunng homosexualy is right next to not gettg tattoos, not eatg pork, and not wearg mixed lens, but you n bet your bottom dollar all your neighbors do those thgs.

BOOK REVIEW: MAKG GAY OKAY: HOW RATNALIZG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR CHANG EVERYTHG

Article SummaryXIf you stggle wh acceptg your attractn to the same sex, know that beg gay is pletely normal and you n be proud of who you are by fdg support and embracg your dividualy.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

In 1993, a study published the journal Science showed that fai wh two homosexual brothers were very likely to have certa geic markers on a regn of the X chromosome known as Xq28.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

In 1991, a study published the journal Science seemed to show that the hypothalam, which ntrols the release of sex hormon om the puary gland, gay men differs om the hypothalam straight men. PET and MRI studi performed 2008 have shown that the two halv of the bra are more symmetril homosexual men and heterosexual women than heterosexual men and homosexual women. Today, however, we know much more about the bra than we did when homosexualy was nsired a disease that required treatment, and the amount of knowledge that we have about the bra is creasg.

If we fe beg gay as engagg homosexual behavr (the ncept of “gay” as an inty is a Wtern cultural ncept – people who have sex wh both men and women may ll themselv gay, straight or bisexual, pendg on the l of their culture or subculture), then people stop beg gay as soon as they stop engagg this behavr. I believe that people have the right to engage any behavr that they choose, as long as their actns do not harm others, and I believe that gay sex and gay relatnships do not e harm to anyone.

(Of urse, there are abive and unhealthy gay relatnships that should not be tolerated, jt as there are unhealthy heterosexual relatnships that should not be tolerated. If sexual preference n be altered, then people who support gay rights n’t rely on the argument that gay people should be protected om discrimatn bee gay people have no choice but to be gay – an argument that seems like an apology for homosexualy, as if homosexualy is a disease for which there is no cure. Jt as gay people who are happy as they are should not be forced to change their sexual orientatn, gay people who want to be straight should have the right to change if they n – and the rrect word is “change” – not “cure”.

GAY IS OK! HOMEPAGE

Photo creds: Vanuver Gay Pri Para 2008 by edallaluna on Wikimedia Commons; DNA by ynse on Wikimedia Commons; Bra fMRI by views exprsed are those of the thor(s) and are not necsarily those of Scientific Amerin. The law may have changed, but the opns of many and teachg of religns have Reilly’s book Makg Gay Okay: How Ratnalizg Homosexual Behavr Chang Everythg meticuloly reviews the history of the mpaign to normalize homosexual behavr. In orr to move forward is necsary to look at where the fenrs of marriage failed to make their se and to unrstand why the tth about marriage failed to nvce activist the stggle to pass state referenda fg marriage as the unn of one man and one woman, the fenrs of marriage foced on the posive aspects of marriage and sentially ignorg the problems herent the gay and lbian liftyle.

Reilly views this strategy as serly flawed;Unfortunately, the pro-natural fay movement largely forswore prsg the ‘hard, ugly reali’ of homosexual behavr on the nscience of the Amerin people.

WHY GAY IS NOT OK

Now the current retreat to the posn of fendg relig eedom means that the issue of the immoraly of sodomy and other homosexual acts has most likely been abandoned for good. If, as most societi have held, homosexual acts are wrong, then, acrdg to Reilly, such acts nnot be the basis for the ntract of send half of the book als wh the effect of the gay agenda on children, science, tn, the ary, and foreign policy. When argug before urts and legislatur for legal protectn, the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists sisted that they were victims and accedg to their mands would protect them om abe, and would not negatively affect anyone else, Reilly talogu how, as the tle of his book claims, makg gay okay and ratnalizg homosexual behavr chang everythg and not for the LGBT activists argued that, when me to sexual ethics, one group should not be allowed to impose their moraly on others.

The LGBT activists label all those who do not accept their agenda as homophobic and transphobic bigots, who need to be reted, punished, or trac the shameful history of how the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) was manipulated by gay activists, surrenred to protters and allowed a rigged referendum. The LGBT activists had targeted the APA, bee as homosexual activist Frankl Kameny explaed, “I feel that the entire homophile movement…is gog to stand or fall upon the qutn of whether or not homosexualy is a sickns” (119). If you have had romantic experienc or fantasi volvg people who are the same genr as you, then there is a good chance you are gay or bisexual, but 's okay if you're a ltle nfed.

If you're tryg to figure out if your iend is gay bee you want to date him (as a woman), 's important to remember that jt bee he might be terted men don't mean he's not terted women. Say somethg like, "You know you're stuck wh me as a iend no matter what, but I jt have to ask bee I don't want to make assumptns and e to the wrong nclns: are you gay? Usg this sle, the rearchers averaged figur supportg their claims that 10 percent of mal between the ag of 16 and 55 were more or ls exclively homosexual for at least three years.

AM I GAY?

Gordon Muir reported that he had found "substantial evince ditg that ls than 5 percent of men and women have had any homosexual ntact their lifetime, and no more than 3 percent of men and nsirably fewer women claim to be bisexual or exclively homosexual.

Even if rearchers were to suggt a heredary tie wh homosexualy, as they have wh alholism, the right tack wh this argument is not to ntend that 's false, but that promot life-threateng behavr. " While AIDS is no longer nsired jt a gay disease, s universaly often overshadows the fact that, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control, "homosexuals ntue to make up the majory of s. " Consequently, the 1993 fdgs of three rearchers wh the Eastern Psychologil Associatn, quoted by Jefey Satover "Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth" (Baker), should e as no surprise.

Satover wr that "they found that the gay male lifpan, even apart om AIDS and wh a long-term partner, is signifintly shorter than that of married men general by more than three s. Mattison found that even homosexual men "permanent" relatnships tend to stray more often than heterosexual men: "Y, that wayward impulse is as evable man-to-man affairs as man-to-woman, only, for gays, starts chg faster. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

VIO: IS GAY OKAY? 10 THGS EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.

MAKG GAY OKAY: ROBERT REILLY EXPLAS HOW AND WHY

But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr.

This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. In most untri surveyed, those who have greater levels of tn are signifintly more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted society than those who have ls tn. In a siar number of untri, those who earn more money than the untry’s natnal median e also are more likely to say they accept homosexualy society than those who earn ls.