I could not collect my thoughts instantaneously when one of my students freely chucked words on air at the course of my explanation regarding the difference between a folkway and mores. I gave as much examples as I could but I could not peg homosexuality right away to any of the classifications of norms. I knew he needed some more explanations, and so was the class. And I knew what context they had been using in their definition of homosexuality.
I am expecting comments on my following avowal, but these testimonies of mine are based on a rational skepticism and pragmatism.
Defining homosexuality appurtenant to the bible would have caused one a trouble. The Bible has been a good recipe for those whose faith is uptight with anxiety and confusion. But the Bible could not speak much of what is in reality. The Bible is the blueprint to God. However, the Bible could not provide a more realistic explanation to the ways of life. The Bible offers food for spiritual life. Conversely, it minimally provides an outline to better understanding homosexuality.
Christians celebrated the fact that God made Adam and Eve, a correspondence to male and female. This has been a longstanding belief among Christians which inevitably limits themselves to the perspective to only two sexes. This standpoint made Christians believes that God made Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve; thereby Adam is for Eve and not Adam for Steve. The Bible explicitly talks about sex, and not gender.
According to John J. Macionis, “Sex is the biological distinction that develops prior to birth” and “Gender is the meaning that a society attaches to being female or male”. Further, gender is the socially constructed meaning that members of a society associate to being a masculine and feminine. The socially constructed meaning is dependent to the feelings, thoughts and actions of the individual.
Adam is male because he has male genitalia. But Adam can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or any other sexual orientations that can be emotionally involved to his masculinity. And Eve can also be homosexual yet she is still a female, biologically.
Confining one’s perspective to the limits of the Bible will never permit him or herself to be tolerant on this matter.
According to Alfred Kinsey, in his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), “males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexuals and homosexuals. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The whole world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
I really found it hard to explain to my students in a Catholic Institution the issue on Homosexuality. I made some of my students clap as I faithfully answer them. Some smiled. Yet some are still doubtful. As I explained, only tolerance can make people religiously accept differences. To shut eyes to reality is to bug down the bridge of understanding.
I am expecting comments on my following avowal, but these testimonies of mine are based on a rational skepticism and pragmatism.
Defining homosexuality appurtenant to the bible would have caused one a trouble. The Bible has been a good recipe for those whose faith is uptight with anxiety and confusion. But the Bible could not speak much of what is in reality. The Bible is the blueprint to God. However, the Bible could not provide a more realistic explanation to the ways of life. The Bible offers food for spiritual life. Conversely, it minimally provides an outline to better understanding homosexuality.
Christians celebrated the fact that God made Adam and Eve, a correspondence to male and female. This has been a longstanding belief among Christians which inevitably limits themselves to the perspective to only two sexes. This standpoint made Christians believes that God made Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve; thereby Adam is for Eve and not Adam for Steve. The Bible explicitly talks about sex, and not gender.
According to John J. Macionis, “Sex is the biological distinction that develops prior to birth” and “Gender is the meaning that a society attaches to being female or male”. Further, gender is the socially constructed meaning that members of a society associate to being a masculine and feminine. The socially constructed meaning is dependent to the feelings, thoughts and actions of the individual.
Adam is male because he has male genitalia. But Adam can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or any other sexual orientations that can be emotionally involved to his masculinity. And Eve can also be homosexual yet she is still a female, biologically.
Confining one’s perspective to the limits of the Bible will never permit him or herself to be tolerant on this matter.
According to Alfred Kinsey, in his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), “males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexuals and homosexuals. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The whole world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
I really found it hard to explain to my students in a Catholic Institution the issue on Homosexuality. I made some of my students clap as I faithfully answer them. Some smiled. Yet some are still doubtful. As I explained, only tolerance can make people religiously accept differences. To shut eyes to reality is to bug down the bridge of understanding.
Naks. Parang pastor ng mga bading DYOSA! :D nice. love ko 'to.
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