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Homosexuality: A “modern” trend?

Written by Victory Oyeleke

Ricky Martin, Singer

DEPENDING on where you reside, homosexuality is either widely accepted and celebrated or a criminal offence that is punishable. However, just a few centuries back, the general concession on homosexuality was, “vile and unnatural”. It was a time when same sex couples were harassed by the police, vilified by the media, and jailed. But like everything else in today’s society, where political correctness is placed above morality, homosexuality is now trending. Although British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ms Deborah Bronnert described homosexuality as a “modern” practice, it is in fact not so.

Homosexuality can be traced back to Sodom and Gomorrah which serves as a cautionary tale of God’s wrath and debate about its causes and consequences has been going on for centuries but, never before in human history has it had such level of acceptance as with the West championing its cause. The same West, whose moral code is fashioned against the Bible which clearly condemns such act. Leviticus 18:22 sees homosexual acts as an abomination to God. Leviticus 20:13 says: If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. Even Islam supports this notion. “Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.” Qur’an 7:80-81

Initially, hostility towards homosexuality was wide- spread throughout European religious and secular institutions and homosexuality was tag as “unnatural” with stiff legal sanctions handed out to perpetrators. Later on, medicine and psychiatry began competing with religion and the law for jurisdiction over sexuality. As a consequence, debate about homosexuality expanded from the realms of sin and crime to include that of pathology. This historical shift was generally considered progressive because a sick person was less blameful than a sinner or criminal. However, even within medicine and psychiatry, homosexuality was not universally viewed as pathology. Sigmund Freud believed all human beings were innately bisexual, and that they become heterosexual or homosexual as a result of their experiences with parents and others (Freud, 1905) in a letter to a concern mother in 1935, Freud agreed that homosexual orientation should not be viewed as a form of pathology “Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too…. “If [your son] is unhappy, neurotic, torn by conflicts, inhibited in his social life, analysis may bring him harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed….”

Later psychoanalysts rejected Freud’s assumption of inherent bisexuality, arguing instead that heterosexuality is natural and that homosexuality is a “reparative” attempt to achieve sexual pleasure when normal heterosexual outlet proves too threatening. Other psychoanalysts have also rejected this view.

Until the early 1970’s the U.S psychiatric establishment classified homosexuality as a mental illness, but that designation was dropped amid increased political activity and efforts by homosexuals to be seen as individuals exercising different sexual preferences rather than aberrant personalities. Therefore, homosexuality is not a mental disorder and no research has found inherent association between sexual orientations and psychopathology. Both heterosexual behaviour and homosexual behaviour are normal aspects of human sexuality several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organisations to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.
Lesbian, gay and bisexual relationships are normal forms of human bonding. This resulted in the abandoning of , homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Since it is now an orientation instead of a disorder, homosexuals has the choice to be with whomever they want to be with and preventing them is seen as eroding their human rights.

The media that once tagged them vile now celebrates them. Being gay is now both trendy and posh. Gay men are seen as fashion forward, sophisticated and this has increases house value in areas they live in. Children as young as 10 years of age are declaring themselves gays and no one thinks this is morally wrong. Even science does not support homosexuality, which sees sex as a means to an end. The end being, the propagation of the human race. This end can never be fulfilled by homosexual practice. Eventually the human race may become extinct. At present, 10 countries have legalised gay marriages with Denmark, Uk and Brazil have been homosexuals some sort of support but not fully endorsing them, however, things are about to change in the UK as David Cameron plans to legalise gay marriage. Who would have thought that a conservative government would become so liberal or perhaps in UK’s usual copycat fashion of the Americans he is just following President Obama’s lead as who became the first U.S president to publicly express support for gay marriage. During an interview in May he stated “It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Hollywood has taken to homosexuality like fish to water and in the process indoctrinated million others. Most celebrities are gay, lesbian or bisexual. What next will this contemporary society accept? Pedophilia?