Creating Moral Clarity

YOU'RE A GOOD, GOD FEARING heterosexual, frequently randy, always up for a good romp with your churchfully wedded spouse, at least, most of the time. Cut from the cleanest Christian cloth, you just know that homosexuality, that unspeakably off-limits-to-the-righteous lifestyle, is a sin of hellish proportions. The sodomites, you are certain, shall surely get theirs in the hereafter. But there's just one nagging, annoying problem. Sometimes, your minister mentions Jesus christ, and his hard to adhere to doctrine of universal love and unconditional forgiveness. Then too, vague memories of those damned do gooder political correctors and their vaguely similar (to Christ's) message keeps seeping in. A touch of moral incongruity, perhaps? So, you find a solution, a very convenient, clever one, so you think. Love the sinner, hate the sin. Perfect! Case closed, all traces of moral hypocrisy vanquished. Back to church, back to bed. But can we, with intellectual integrity, so easily separate out the sin from the sinner? Just how deeply imbedded within you is your own spousal love and lust? Deeply, perhaps? How deeply embedded is anyone else's, straight or gay? As deeply as your own, likely. Don't look now, but here comes the advance guard of that qwful moral incongruity you thought you had forever vanquished.