| | I agree with Pete that a philosophical question regarding fundamentals, interjected into politics, is awfully refreshing (it is rare indeed - thanks Bob Schieffer!).
However, I don't believe that these 2 knuckleheads will attempt to integrate this fundamental into their actual political behavior - they merely paid their lip service when put on the spot to do so.
Regarding homosexuality, I think that we're born (genetically) on a spectrum of sexual orientation - and that most choose to live out at the ends of the spectrum (either hetero-sexual or homo-sexual).
An illustrative analogy is dieting: some do best on diets by never "cheating" and some do best on diets by instituting a "cheat day" every 1-2 weeks (as a reward to themselves).
But food choice is only one of a myriad of life choices, which each add up as an aggregate sum in order to get the grand conclusion of a person's "level of morality." This insight (and its analogous meaning to homosexuality) was not sufficiently explicated in past posts on the subject in this forum.
Whether sexual orientation has any identifiable moral "weight" FOR ANY GIVEN INDIVIDUAL is not an answerable question - without first knowing most of what there is to know about that particular individual, and most of what there is to know about their unique journey in life (a formidable task indeed!).
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 10/26, 8:18am)
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