On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, indago wrote:

> I am recalling a program I saw on cable of a search into why an
> individual is gay. An individual, seeking to understand why someone is
> gay, asked a gay person: "Why are you gay?" The gay person looked him
> straight in the eye and asked: "Why are you straight?"

A clever and apt rejoinder, to be sure, and it might make the light of
understanding come on for some thinking people, but not for those
self-proclaimed "Christians" for whom thinking is tantamount to blasphemy.
For those individuals, the answer to "Why are you straight?" runs along
the lines of "Because that is God's order for the world. Homosexuality is
inherently disordered, an abomination before God, and it is a behavior and
a lifestyle choice at best, and a sickness at worst. Come pray with us and
Jesus will cure you of your homosexual urges."

That's a longwinded way of saying what President Bush's Karl Rove said
just the other day:

"If we want to have a hopeful and decent(!) society, we ought to aim for
the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a
union of a man and a woman."

Yep, that's the Bush administration..."spreading freedom and democracy
around the globe" (the Brits called it "bringing them civilisation" a
century ago...didn't work out too well back then, either).