Research has been published with regularity over the past years which gives force to our understanding that being gay is something out of our control. Even if you don't accept the mounting genetic evidence, no onechooses to be attracted to one gender or the other. The awareness of our own preference is presented to us at around the same time as the awakening of love itself – significantly, before we connect it with procreation. In fact, affective attraction arrives before its genital counterpart – a further pointer that homosexuality is simply something in nature, thus 'natural'.
As Thomas Aquinas well understood, while the natural law itself is not subject to change, human knowledge and understanding of it are. Adjustments must be made in accordance with new, more correct information.
Debbie and I saw Stephen Hough play the Tchaikovsky first piano concerto with the orchestra the other night. He was spectacular, and the Chopin nocturne he did as an encore was simply exquisite. I was surprised to read in the program notes that he had compiled a book called The Bible as Prayer: A Handbook for Lectio Divina. So I ordered a copy when we got home. Later on, I discovered that Hough converted to Catholicism when he was 19 and has written about being gay and Catholic. So I did a search and came upon this, which I think is excellent.
This is wonderful Frank. Thanks for sharing!
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