HOMOSEXUALITY Homosexuality has been the topic of constant conflict today. Homosexuality is defined as, a romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. In addition, homosexuality has been accepted more today, however, it is still frowned upon by many. Consequently, there are many challenges on the views of homosexuality. Some may think that this is an abnormal behavior, to have an attraction to the same sex. On the contrary, there are many who defend that the feelings that homosexual has, are feelings that are normal, not to mention, homosexuals believe that they were in fact born this way. Furthermore, in this essay, it will look at the challenges that are presented on this topic, and look at the conflict that is between society, homosexuals, and the church. …show more content…
Society is one of the corporeal that plays a major role in a homosexual’s life. If you go into public schools, you will see this behavior is becoming more prevalent. Not to mention, the attraction of same sex even start as early as elementary schools. Therefore, young children experiment with same sex interaction, and if the parents don’t address this interaction this could potentially carry over into adulthood. If fact, society makes it appears this is a chosen lifestyle. Additionally, this lifestyle is heavily influence by the radio, television, and peers. Often, young children grow up with this in the household. Some may say that homosexuality is inherit, in addition, it caused by poor parenting. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge on homosexuality. Consequently, some people may think that homosexuality is a disease that is contagious. In addition, many people frowned upon people that are
Homosexuality is a sensitive topic and often avoided in conversation. For centuries the human race has oppressed and persecuted others strictly because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual etc. Although it is disturbing to most of us, these actions still occur in our society today, as many believe that homosexuality is abnormal and disgraceful. One supporter of this belief is Michael Levin, who strongly believes that homosexuality is highly abnormal and thus, undesirable. Although his beliefs and theories supporting this claim are subjective, there is evidence that can support his stance on this topic; we will analyze this claim in further detail and how it relates to his other views mentioned in this essay.
One of the most enabling definitions of bisexuality comes from a bisexual activist named Robyn Ochs. According her her, “bisexuality is the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree” (Ochs). However, bisexuality did not always refer to sexual orientation. One of the first uses of the word ‘bisexual’ can be found in Psychopathia Sexualis, a late nineteenth-century forensic study authored by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. The study was one among many which pathologized homosexuality. In this work, however, ‘bisexuality’ is used to describe what is now known as ‘intersexuality’ in which “a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male” (Eisner 14-15; What is Intersex?). Sigmund Freud’s idea of bisexuality more closely fits what we know as bisexuality today, however he regarded it as a primitive sexuality found in male children which would develop into heterosexuality or homosexuality later on (Eisner 15). Appropriately, one of the first people to refer to bisexuality as a normal, viable sexual orientation was Alfred Kinsey, himself a bisexual (Queen and Lawrence 1216). According to him, “the world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white” (Kinsey 639). Though as many as 1.8% of Americans identify as bisexual, many people continue to discriminate against them or assert that they do not exist (Gates). This kind of marginalization is known as biphobia. On the whole, the Wikipedia article for biphobia covers a variety of topics and presents goo...
Pastoral counseling has been offered to allow members of the Church who identify themselves as homosexual to assist them to remain good members of the Church. A reflection on the Church’s history and influences in terms of the development of prejudices against homosexuality may be necessary in order to determine the real root of the issue. Some individuals believe that a change in doctrine is necessary in order to fix the problems regarding homosexuality within the Church, while others stand by Pope Francis and believe that progress can be made without having to undergo such a drastic change. As gay rights continue to become a more apparent issue in today’s global society, the Catholic Church does not need to consider a change in doctrine, however the members of the Church do need to consider following the suggestions of Pope Francis by becoming more open to and tolerant of the idea of homosexuals within the Catholic community. The Christian views on sexuality were not developed based on Christian beliefs alone.
Sexuality is shaped by gender because gender in itself is a social construct. Sex is based on genetics, on whether or not you have a XX chromosome or a XY chromosome. Gender on the other hand is socially constructed. It’s how we perceive each other. For example, girls have long hair and wear pink but boys have short hair and are to be tough. Sexuality is further shaped by this because with gender, the world has only really ever had two categories, female and male, when really there could be more or there could be less.
Homosexuality is out of the norm in the society compared to heterosexuality, which is the sexual preference that is always portrayed to be the good one. In the Catholic religion there has always been a debate whether if God is against or not about homosexuality. Homosexuality is not against God. By analyzing Bible passages that mentions homosexuality, Jesus’ teachings, Christian ethics, and surveys taken in workplace that shows discrimination against homosexuality, then it will become evident that God is not opposed to homosexuality.
The Catholic Church loves LGBT people with a profound love, just like it loves all of its other children. Various organizations within the church have as their main purpose the delivery of the Gospel to LGBT's. All of us are sacred creations of God, and therefore deserve respect on the basis of our human nature. This essay treats an outreach effort of the church in this area.
Reflecting directly on the cultural attitudes and sociocultural messages explained throughout this course, it is clear that race, gender, and sexuality are all socially constructed in one way or another. Contrary to popular belief, race is actually almost completely socially constructed, it is not biological. Further, a human’s DNA does not differentiate at all to create any specific race. However, society has categorized certain things, such as skin color, to determine the race of individuals. In simpler terms, there are not specific genes that parents pass on to their offspring that determine their race; society categorizes people into specific races when they are born based on their
In today Society being gay is part of life, from the shows that people watch, to pictures on a store wall, being gay is the new normal. People with this life style have their own holiday and are even glorified for coming out. People are even allowed to be married to a person of the same sex in all 50 states. If a person feels oppositely of the pro gays movement they will be beaten into summation, talked about as if one is simple minded and unopened. But still to this day people are choosing to hide who they really are from the world around them. These people are what is called on the down low, these people could be any one on the street. A person would not ever know he or she was gay by just looking at them. These people appear to have a happy home and love their wives.
It is important to understand what sexuality is to understand how and why this concept might be a great affect to an adolescence child living under a household of the same sex parents. Gay and lesbian identity development is noted as homosexuality, which is used to understand the sexuality at various points in history. Sexual identity is defined as the way an individual situate themselves within each category of sexual orientation (Levy). Sexual identity development is a central task of an adolescence child can be very risk taking for youth. Bregman moved from a stage model of identity development in bisexual, lesbian, and gay youth to look at identity in multidimensional, non-linear manner. Families are a core identity to an adolescent development. Bregman has did a research on exactly how this environment has affect adolescent youth. Research developed a multidimensional model and it resulted in a sense of parental rejection parental youth. Over one hundred over these youth reported as bisexual or gay due to the lack of sexual, social, and the support of the parent overall. These youth experience struggling identities due to the lack of support from the parents and due to the sense of knowing anything other than what they have been confirmed to believing in from their household. This is a good way to better understand their growth development as an adolescence child (Bregman). In contrast, the tendency of focusing on adolescents and young adult children of lesbian mothers, Johnson believes that a child is raised and functioning just as well, if not better, than a child raised in a heterosexual parenting environment. They have been researched as well adjusted and well raised adolescence children. Although there appears to be no ...
Are we born to be automatically attracted to the opposite sex, or does society force it? How could one government declare itself democratic if they don’t allow homosexual couples? In the middle of all the attention, it is critical to understand how these individuals feel. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24 and 25% of them were reported to be homosexuals. The reason these numbers are so high could be because of how ignorant and uneducated people are about the subject. It could be easily inferred that homos chose their sexual orientation, however, that isn’t always the case. Even though one could choose to be homo, due to relationship failure or other reasons, others could be
I feel homosexuals go through a lot in society such as not being accepted for who they truly are, not being able to pursue their careers, and not getting the appropriate respect they need. I am acquainted with a couple of people who are in the LGBTQ community (outside of my family), and most of them are afraid to be themselves around non-LGBTQ people. These acquaintances have confided in me people might think the worst of them. On the other hand, some of these acquaintances opinions from other people do not matter to them; however, it is the opinions coming from their family members that matter the most. I have come to believe that if you are not stepping out of your comfort zone, then you are not comfortable with being whom you are. This is how society affects the members of the LGBTQ community. Another key point to this essay is that people who really do not have a problem with homosexuals, let the people around them corrupt their mind to the point where they are not thinking for themselves and witnessing that type of thinking can really take a toll on your moral
Sexual discrimination, also known as gender discrimination is prejudice based on the sex of a person. Throughout history, discrimination against people of any kind, for countless reasons, have led to many catastrophes. While sexual discrimination may not seem to bring any sort of impending doom, it causes traumatic effects on individual worldwide. It does this by affecting many aspects of a person’s life, such as their emotional and physical well-being. Sexual discrimination also plays an effect on religion. In a world where lives are shaped on ethics and morality, the Catholic religion does it’s best to highlight the religious views and aspects on such matters.
For John Hnery MacKay the term “Nameless” derived form the highly publicized Oscar Wilde obscenity trials was the root for his later description of same-sex and man-boy love by calling it “nameless/namenlose.” MacKay asserted that the love between a man and a boy could not be named, nor pathologized by medical science or sexology. MacKay’s disdain for these terms, led him to describe his homosexual desire as to be without a name because of the stigmas attached to these terms and how there were used in Weimar German society in the political and legal system to criminalize and punish same-sex desire. In order to make this more clear in his literature, MacKay’s Sagitta writings BNL and Puppenjunge serve as examples of MacKay’s own search to explain something that cannot or should not be named.
The treatment of the LGBT community in American Society is a social injustice. What most people think is that they just want to be able to marry one another and be happy but that’s not it. They want to be treated like humans and not some weird creatures that no one has ever seen before. They want to be accepted for who them are and not what people want them to be and they deserve the right to be who they are just the same as any other human being. After all the discrimination they have endured they should be allowed to be who they are and be accepted as equals just like people of different skin color did in the times of segregation. We have a long way to go as a country but being the greatest country in the world in the eyes of many great America will make big steps to make things fair.
Nature is behind reproduction. “ Homosexual marriage is on the wrong side of nature. Homosexual relations are unnatural. This is confirmed by biology, physiology and religion” (King 1). Without a man and a woman, reproduction does not exist; therefore the continuation of society’s acceptance of homosexuality could end the human race if it continues to grow. There is no way for the human race to continue if homosexuality continues. Marriage has been between a man and a woman since its conception. “When God made man and woman He had something very specific in mind. It goes without saying that He did not want men marrying men , or women marrying women” (Saunders 238). Reproduction requires both man and a woman and without reproduction, the population has no way to grow. Homosexuals do not reproduce, they recruit. Even though it has become popular recently to explain that homosexuality has physical or biological causes, this is wrong. Homosexuals are not born, they are created. Homosexual behavior is the result of choice, not genetic chance. The behavior of a homosexual is a learned behavior (King 1-3). Homosexuality is a choice that may be intentionally made as a source of attention or it may be a subconscious