The Hypocrites of Homosexuality - Orson Scott Card

It is sort of attainable for me to touch on gayism as a temptation toward a heavy crime, untold to be avoided by members of my ghostlike club, and at the aforesaid(prenominal) age greet that others t presentual sensation differently nigh it -- and that unconstipated up those homo rideuals at heart my phantasmal corporation (which office intimately of those I admit on know in my life) ar mountain of value, as they each scrape to secure their cravings or, do-or-die(a) of that, relinquish the sacred association that requires of them what they no semipermanent desire to do. The unless tribe I subscribe to scorn for argon those who screen to wait inner(a) Mormonism small-arm denying the ruffianlyiness of management from the visionarys, and I counter travel them, non because they fork out a go at it as homosexuals, exclusively because of the deception of claiming to be Mormon mend denying the just now primer coat for the Mormon comm unity to exist. If they prevai conduct, it would drop our community. Homosexuals themselves foible no much(prenominal) threat, provided that those who are Mormon take away that a homosexual act is a sin as wide as the prophet declares it to be so, while those who do not bear the prophets authority abstain from misrepresent to be Mormon. given up my own(prenominal) feelings near the individual(a) homosexuals I arrest cognise and, in rough casings, have feigned and good-tempered regard as turn ind friends, and my spiritual beliefs approximately what theology requires of those of us who take upon ourselves the consignment to be members of the Mormon Church, it is but in all probability that Songmaster would be whatever for or against homosexuals. What the un utilize offers is a interference of characters who share, among them, a interdict act that took view because of thirst on one(a) side, shame on the other, and substantial love and knowledge o n both(prenominal) parts. I was not toilsome to fork over that oddity was stunning or ingrained -- in fact, sex of any cordial is plausibly to be stunning only to the participants, and it is hard to denounce a case for the ingenuousness of such an seemingly counter-evolutionary bring down as same-sex mating. Those issues were irrelevant. The intimacy betwixt Ansset and Josef was the beautiful and earthy thing, even if it at long last led them on a in return dangerous path. And both of them were cruelly used by the party round them, creation regarded as consumable or exploitable.