Natural Reaction

Our fear of offending others can sometimes numb us to our built-in mechanisms that help us to navigate through life's right and wrong. Popular Catholic and Political blogger Lisa Graas talks of our natural reaction of disgust towards homosexuality.

Regular readers know that I have shared before that I have never used contraception. I’ve never had an abortion. I’ve never engaged in sodomy, nor any homosexual act. Such things have always and ever been disgusting to me, my entire life. I will not apologize to anyone for natural disgust because I know that it’s God’s mechanism at work in me. If you do those things, you’re hurting yourself AND OTHERS. It hurts me to see you accept disgusting things that I know are abhorrent to our Lord. If you continue in these things, it will not be a good outcome for you, but I cannot force you. In the meantime, don’t tell me not to vomit, or that if I vomit it somehow means I don’t care about you. Vomiting is a natural reaction to these things. If you are not vomiting, you are the sick one, not me.

This reminds me of an incident at home while watching "Will and Grace" with my cousin who is gay. There was a kissing scene between two men, and I, instantaneously reacted with "kadiri" (disgusting). My gay cousin whom I am close to and love dearly could only react with a question of how come I do not react that way with a man and a woman kissing.

The Philippine society do accept the gay community as our own family. There was even a joke that the Philippines' second language is the gay lingo.

If the gays in the Philippines would be influenced by the organized gay community abroad, they would have more to lose if they push the boundary to gay marriage. Drawing the line makes all the difference.