Letter To Louise

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The next day The Dallas Morning News ran this two-column headline: “Baptist General Convention Reasserts Its Hatred of Gays, Lesbians. There is something more to the moral quality of sexual behavior than the purely objective legal question of marriage… Something else ought to be present; that something else is love…. The pornographic industry, estimated at up to one hundred billion dollars a year, the gentlemen’s clubs, the brothels, internet pornography, etc.

Then I wrote this letter to Louise, reflecting what I now have come to believe is the truth about homosexuality, what the Bible says and what God wants us to think and do about it. For example, [Yale historian] John Boswell notes that in ancient Rome `marriages between males and between females were legal and familiar among the upper classes. That industry annually lures two thousand teenage girls into prostitution in the city of Dallas alone. Whatever importance sex has for the heterosexual, it has the same importance for the homosexual–no more, no less. When the time came that it was no longer so certain that couples would have only a brief time for marriage, Paul’s (scriptural) admonition was no longer considered applicable.and the lesbian has an exceptional supply of male characteristics (enough that she falls in love with a woman -?

Evidence that homosexuality is unchangeable includes: (a) ten thousand suicides each year of young homosexuals unwilling to face life with that orientation; (b) the high percentage of homosexuals who go to psychotherapists desperately wanting to change their orientation, and then (c) the very small percentage of them reportedly being changed after hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars being spent in psychotherapy; (d) the millions of homosexuals who remain “in the closet,” not acting like homosexuals and not wanting anyone to learn of their orientation; (e) the thousands who are reported as coming to pastors and counselors devastated to have to recognize their unchangeable orientation and wanting assistance in dealing with it. Peter Gomes, Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, says, “The combination of ignorance and prejudice under the guise of morality makes the religious community, and its abuse of scripture in this regard, itself morally culpable.

I felt deprived though at not knowing more about Pauline's parents and how they felt, and reacted, when they found out about their daughter's deceit and the fact they had been denighed their first grand child. Psychologist Mark Friedman, from a series of tests administered to both gays and lesbians, found that the homosexuals he tested were superior to their heterosexual counterparts in such psychological qualities as autonomy, spontaneity, orientation toward the present, and increased sensitivity to the value of the person.

Pauline Collins is probably best known to American audiences for her portrayal of Sarah in the classic television series "Upstairs, Downstairs" or perhaps for her lead role in "Shirley Valentine. in speaking of marriage being good and not to be denied because “everything created by God is good,” would include homosexual marriage because God created homosexuality.

I have a special interest in the book as Pauline Collins taught me for a short while in 1964 at her father's primary school. When I began reading I soon realized things about myself I now deplore: I was ignorant of the many facts about homosexuality and harbored some myths about it, a subject that had been very important to mainline denominations for several decades. But I know some will never accept them, so I have something I want to say to those people; I have made it Appendix C. Full acceptance by society, including the blessings and legality of marriage should be extended to gays and lesbians in the same way it is extended to others.