Everyone is Becoming Homosexual

Mirrors of Justice picks up on an article that seems to have a fact pattern we are hearing more and more

Austin doesn’t have to play “the pretend game,” as he calls it, anymore. At his middle school, he has come out to his close friends, who have been supportive. A few of his female friends responded that they were bisexual. “Half the girls I know are bisexual,” he said. . . .
“When I first realized I was gay,” Austin interjected, “I just assumed I would hide it and be miserable for the rest of my life. But then I said, ‘O.K., wait, I don’t want to hide this and be miserable my whole life.’ ”
I asked him how old he was when he made that decision.
“Eleven,” he said.

Eleven? Half his girl friends are bisexual?

Crunchy Con explores this article too and no doubt the comment section will be interesting at Coming out in middle school. Rod states in part:

I am certain that many gay folks know from an early age that they're gay. I can think of a first-grader on my school bus when I was a second-grader, who was incredibly queeny. Everybody thought of him as a sissy, but we didn't know what "gay" was back then. He's now 40, and openly gay. I have other gay friends who "just knew all along" that they were gay. But I also have friends who, during middle school and high school, weren't quite sure what they were. I went to a boarding school my last two years of high school, and I know a few guys there who had gay sex simply because they were incredibly horny and the opportunity was there. At least one of them is now happily married, with children, and another one I'm thinking of was plainly heterosexual, just incredibly frustrated.

I'm all for creating situations in school and elsewhere where kids who are gay, or who think they're gay, can get along without being picked on. I'm not at all sure it's a healthy thing to encourage middle-schoolers to pick sides and publicly declare themselves during this difficult time of transition from childhood to adulthood, when identity issues are intense, and fluid.

Now unmentioned here is a lot.

One is the gay rights movement that often proclaims itself representing "Gay, bisexual, and transgendered" However you will note how quickly that bisexual is dropped. When a married man has a same sex encounter he is a HOMOSEXUAL. There are reasons for this perhaps being in part the strong dislike of truly homosexual men as to bisexuals or those that have slight degrees of SSM. Also there is a political motive at play here

But what else is lurking here a much more sophisticated view that our parents and grandparents had. That is they did not need studies that we have today to know that a pretty good number of average heterosexual guys and girls experimented a tad in their youth. Many were just sexually frustrated as Rod stated but in essence they were pretty much heterosexual. This was accepted as a phase. There is just too much literature talking about boarding schools for instance where this is hinted at.

Father Scalia, the son of Justice Scalia, works with the Courage group in Washington D.C. He often talks on this topic. He went into great detail in excellent article A Label that Sticks . He talked on this subject as well as the varying degrees of same sex attraction in this excellent Theology on Tap Audio. I really recommend that audio.

The article is also worth a full read and he gets into related issues. Let me just highlight these parts


The new approach, however, does just the opposite. It encourages labeling. Rather than struggle through the difficulties of adolescence, a high-school freshman or sophomore can now, with official support, profess to be gay—and he instantly has an identity and a group. Now he belongs. He knows who he is. Gone is the possibility that adolescents might be confused, perhaps even wrong.

Adults typically display a wise reserve about the self-discoveries of high-school students: they know adolescents are still figuring things out, and they recognize their responsibility to help sort through the confusion. So why is all this natural wisdom somehow abandoned these days—in the most confused and confusing area of adolescent sexuality? Of course, the phrases are tempting because of their convenience and efficiency. They are common, close at hand, and make quick work of a difficult issue. But they also identify an individual person with his homosexual inclinations. They presume that a person is his inclinations or attractions; he is a “gay” or is a “homosexual.” At some point adults have to admit that a fifteen-year-old who claims to be “a questioning transgendered bisexual” is really just confused...........

Adolescents need to hear precisely this: People’s sexual inclinations do not determine their identity. Nor does every so-called “homosexual” feel attractions of the same character or to the same degree. Some have strong and lasting homosexual desires; for others, such desires are slight and passing. Lumping everyone together as having the same orientation or identity is a grotesque reduction of a complicated reality, and it massively damages the very people it claims to help. Resisting the labeling temptation demands that we reject the culture’s vocabulary and adopt more precise terms. In popular usage, the words “gay” and “lesbian” imply a fixed orientation and the living out of a lifestyle.

Even the term “homosexual person,”which is used in some Vatican documents, suggests that homosexual inclinations somehow determine, which is to say confine, a person’s identity. Granted, the more accurate phrases do not trip easily off the tongue. But what is lost in efficiency is gained in precision. Terms such as “same-sex attractions” and “homosexual inclinations” express what a person experiences without identifying the person with those attractions. They both acknowledge the attractions and preserve the freedom and dignity of the person. With that essential distinction made, parents can better oppose the attractions without rejecting the child. And as the child matures, he will not find his identity confined to his sexuality.

There is a lot of wisdom here. The elephant in the room is what happens if gay marriage becomes a Constitutional Right. If that happens the schools will be called on to teach and promote the legitimacy of the new regime of thing. This dangerous labeling will than just accelerate.