Banning The Bible

HOMOSEXUALITY is a fact of life, a law of nature, God's will, if you will. It exists in many species of animal other than human. We are not alone. It is estimated that something on the order of five percent of human beings are homosexual. A gene for homosexuality has been isolated, proving conclusively that homosexuality is written into the very fabric of life, a deliberate natural mechanism, possibly for population control, but very definitely in accordance with the grand life plan of the creator of the universe. None of this matters to conservative Christians, whose tendency is to deny the existence of whatever they deem inconvenient to their primitive system of belief, and to invent whatever they believe enhances their own status as believers in primitive theology. There was a time when Christians denied that the Earth orbits the sun. Now, they deny the fact of evolution, and they deny that homosexuality is a biological, not a moral issue; unless troublemakers attempt to make it one. The Christian community has given us, among many other evils, Sexual Orientation Conversion Effort ,or SOCE. In this process, a gay person is forced to undergo extensive brainwashing to convince the victim of this barbaric cruelty that he or she is in fact heterosexual, and that he or she has merely strayed morally, or is somehow confused, misguided. Often people subjected to this torture convince themselves for a time ht they are indeed "cured" of homosexuality, but in almost all cases, the biological imperative returns, and the person has experienced misery and mistreatment for no beneficial reason. In California it is illegal to use Sexual Orientation Conversion Effort on anyone under the age of eighteen; a bill is now under consideration to outlaw the practice for everyone. The bill has been passed by the lower house, and is not being considered by the state Senate. The christian community is up in arms, claiming across the internet that California is attempting to "ban the Bible', and that California's fires are God's retribution for the Bible banning effort. This lunacy presumably derives from the twisted logic that since the Bible considers homosexuality a sin, to ban any attempt to eradicate it is to ban the Bible. Between homosexuality and the Bible, the Bible does far more harm, by promulgating falsehood; homosexuality does no harm, and in fact does a great service of enticing religious fanatics to expose themselves and their hateful, destructive doctrines to public scrutiny.