We live in a very ordered world. The sun rises and the sun sets; seasons come and go year after year; the date of Easter is set by a formula which uses the phases of the moon, for we can calculate along with tides, up and down every coast line in the world; water evaporates off the surface of the ocean which creates clouds and leads to snow and rain. It's easy to understand this cause and effect because it's scientific.
Saving money for college costs and retirement means less short-term disposable income. A commitment to an exercise program allows you to lose weight at the expense of some other activity. It's easy to understand these types of tradeoffs because they have a personal impact.
There are always tradeoffs - either made or otherwise.
However, it's seems harder to recognize cause and effect as it relates to homosexuality. We claim it's personal. There are claims that it affects no one else. How many marriages have been ruined? How many children's lives have been impacted? How many people have died? How have medical costs risen? Sure, the same questions can be asked about divorce. But bringing that topic into this discussion is a only a distractor whose sole purpose is to derail getting at the real facts. Divorce has it's own set of problems which is another topic in and of itself.
While engaging in homosexual behavior is a personal choice, to state that is has no consequences is simply untrue and a lie. Just ask a marriage counselor, or a child psychiatrist, or a police officer, or an emergency room nurse or doctor.
How can anyone disagree that homosexuality is simply physically unnatural? And isn't it true that unnatural acts by definition have a negative consequence that affect more than just a single person? Besides, we are not just talking about what two consenting adults due in the privacy of their home. We are talking about well-organized efforts on both sides of the issue that receive millions of dollars from donors to lobby politicians and the state and federal government. We are talking about corporate America that does not respect the views of people of faith in the workplace and yet still call it "diversity." We are talking about healthy Americans whose health insurance premiums and co-payments that help pay for domestic partner health claims. We are talking about organized efforts and outspoken gay teachers in schools that attempt to recruit teenagers or demand that a gay pride flag be flown along side flags from other countries. Unnatural acts always lead to terrible, terrible consequences
