Is homosexuality in any way natural and genetic or is it just people suppressing the truth?
This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘God’s Power for Salvation’ (2005).
I am not a medical man nor a scientist. I have heard it said that there is a gene for homosexuality. I know of other scientists—medics who are interested in the cell and genetics—who say there is no one gene for homosexuality. It could be that tendencies towards homosexuality are brought about in some people by unfortunate experiences in childhood. And it could be that where a true relationship between father and son and mother and son have been impaired (as often nowadays is horribly so) it can induce a tendency towards homosexuality. From that point of view, those that suffer those things should have our sympathy or at least our compassion.
That doesn't justify the practice of homosexuality. Some people, by traumatic upbringing, are given to violence. That doesn't justify the practice of violence. Some people, by whatever cause, are given to short tempers and explosions of temper. That doesn't justify it. All of us have various wrong inclinations that are part of the wreckage of Adam's sin. That doesn't excuse us from the practice of those wrong deeds that spring from those wrong inclinations.
And if you want the evidence of law 'written in our hearts' and you come back to the law written on our hearts, you will observe how this is also linked with the fact of a creator. If there is no creator then, in the end, our bodies are accidents of evolution. If there is a creator who made our bodies then, of course, the very design of them carries a witness to his purpose. And of all the things about human bodies, the mechanism of sex declares the purpose of sex. Some things are 'against nature', as Paul puts it in Romans 1:
God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use . . . (Romans 1:26)
Homosexuality goes against nature itself and against the evidence of the purpose of the mechanisms of the human body.
