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How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]
I think a good way to discuss homosexuality would be to stop for a while all those religious considerations and raise the question whether human homosexuality is "normal" or not from a scientific point of view. Some time ago I discussed it with a friend who is a professional psychotherapist working at the University Hospital in my city, in Belgium. She told me this:
Human homosexuality is the result of a genetic flaw combined to a psychic trauma.
1. First of all, it is a genetic "accident" having to do with chromosomes that will set the risk for a Human to become a homosexual, as potentially he will instinctively be attracted by same-sex persons.
2. There is afterwards a psychic factor which will work (or not) as a catalyst which will make the person definitely be "actively" homosexual. It will work or not depending on how the person will react when she builds her sexual identity through his experiences (since childhood) and also the way society behaves in return to her -- and society also includes parents. There are patterns where, for example, a homosexual male very often is a man who had an "abusing" mother and a "missing" father. It is not 100% of the cases but it's the vast majority.
Anyway, the consequence of all this is that human homosexuality can in NO WAY be considered as something "normal", something "natural". It is important to specify "human", for some other species do naturally reproduce through "intercourse" between two same-sex individuals. Humans don't, period! An other consideration is the requirement, in order to get a better balanced child, to have him grow up with a reference model for parents made of a male and a female, not two males or two females.
I take the opportunity to talk about transsexuals. When a person feels so bad as a man or a woman that she wants to change sex, it is again certainly not something to be considered normal. After surgery, several patients commit suicide when they realize that their problem is not solved and they are not happier than they were before. Of course it's not solved! Those cases are simply for psychiatry, not surgery...
When it comes to whether homosexuality should be socially normalized or not, for example by granting gays and lesbians the right of getting married or raise children... As far as I'm concerned, I'm against such rights because I consider that the role of the State is to keep a consistent society through sets of laws allowing the majority of people to live together in a consistent way. I'm tired of all those minority activists who want to turn society upside down sothat each individual could fully and selfishly live his specificity, especially for something as "twisted" as homosexuality.
In the times of political correctness where everything different than the average should be accepted as "normal", it would be good to remember that homosexuality is a medical problem before anything else. And religion has nothing to do with it.
