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Altering Sexuality

Also via Instapundit comes this thorny shocker.

We may have a "cure" for homosexuality in the not too distant future. This of course totally flies in the face of religious people who fulminatingly insist that homosexuality is 'against nature' (bulls***, it's found all over nature in countless species) but it also flies in the face of gay rights activists who insist that homosexuality is an "immutable trait" like race (which I've been telling my friends in the gay community for almost 20 years is a really foolish position to take).

So, when--and it's no longer an "if"--we have a drug that can turn gay people straight, is it going to become okay to discriminate against gays? Or mandate that they get "treatment?"

(FWIW, I've been a staunch advocate for gay rights since well before it was popular. Trying to read anything into my motives for posting these questions is a total waste of your time and I'd encourage against trying. Just address the data and the actual questions I pose, please.)

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Statement

Torah forbids a man to stick his limb in another man's anus.

One who does so has sinned against Torah.

There are many acts that Torah prohibits.

A man is not defined by any particular act; and we do not know how G-d judges a man after he passes on.

(Copied from a comment in attached thread.)

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