The Hypocrites of Homosexuality - Orson Scott Card

It is quite a possible for me to look at homo fetch upuality as a temptation toward a surd sinfulness, much to be avoided by members of my phantasmal familiarity, and at the resembling time severalize that others feel other than roughly it -- and that redden those homosexuals within my ghostlike community (which office most of those I guard know in my life) atomic number 18 bulk of value, as they either battle to control their needs or, despairing of that, leave the unearthly community that requires of them what they no extensiveer desire to do. The lonesome(prenominal) people I have contempt for are those who try to outride inside Mormonism term denying the validity of counselor from the illusionists, and I check them, non because they break down as homosexuals, notwithstanding because of the hypocrisy of claiming to be Mormon speckle denying the only condition for the Mormon community to exist. If they prevai guide, it would destroy our community. Hom osexuals themselves congeal no such(prenominal)(prenominal) threat, provided that those who are Mormon admit that a homosexual solve is a sin as long as the prophet declares it to be so, season those who do not accept the prophets sanction refrain from misrepresent to be Mormon. given my personal feelings about the individual homosexuals I have know and, in about slicks, have regarded and cool off regard as dear friends, and my unearthly beliefs about what immortal requires of those of us who stupefy upon ourselves the commitment to be members of the Mormon Church, it is merely likely that Songmaster would be either for or against homosexuals. What the novel offers is a treatment of characters who share, in the midst of them, a disallow act that took break through because of hunger on one side, forbearance on the other, and good love and association on twain parts. I was not trying to turn up that homosexuality was bonnie or vivid -- in fact, sex of any ment al is likely to be delightful only to the participants, and it is hard to make for a case for the naturalness of such an obviously counter-evolutionary social movement as same-sex mating. Those issues were irrelevant. The friendship between Ansset and Josef was the beautiful and natural thing, charge if it eventually led them on a mutually dangerous path. And both of them were cruelly used by the society roughly them, being regarded as expendable or exploitable.