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Over the years we have come to know many other gay men and women, most of them possessing admirable traits and character, with the same imperfections and weaknesses as average people. They have similar moral struggles with the bad they don’t want to be doing and the good they really want to do. We believe the majority of people of faith will eventually accept homo-naturals as healthy and well-adjusted persons, hopefully by the time our grandchildren grow up. The enlightened church will then concede that being homo-natural is a variation of sexuality, not a defect. At that point some legal accommodation will be extended to gay and lesbian couples honoring their enduring partnerships of love and devotion which mirror the lengthy marriages accomplished by hetero-natural couples. It’s just a matter of time. It always is. People do decide to be more loving once they see almost everyone else is. Then the church finds a way to do the same thing.

Well-meaning advocates of traditional Bible interpretation have suggested that homo-naturality is a threat to family values. They say the Biblical model for marriage of one man and one woman is a moral absolute. When homo-natural orientation is eventually proven to be a normal human condition, won’t our acceptance of that fact, rather than destroying family values, actually help heal families split apart by the surprise revelation of a gay son or daughter? As to moral absolutes which might be at risk if traditional Bible interpretation is challenged, all I can say is this: a moral absolute cannot be defended faithfully if it hurts people who do not deserve to be hurt.

Now that our son is a grown man we know from our study both in and in addition to the Bible that not everyone in the world is hetero-natural. Many Christians, Jews, and Muslims and other persons not identified with any particular religious belief system are homo-natural with integrity toward their sexual orientation. Our thought now is "Hate the condemnation, but love the condemn-or." To us that means “If you disapprove of homo-naturals or people who support them, come a little closer. Once you get to know us, you’ll be surprised at how natural we are.” Then they too will face that conflict of what they know about us and what they thought they knew about homo-naturality. And I guarantee they know less about homo-naturality than they do about homosexuality.