“I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me…” ~ Tim Cook; CEO of Apple Computers
Following Mr. Cook’s line of reasoning; since God gave homosexuality as a gift, than that same God also bequeathed the means for gay men to express “love” to one another. To use a Freudian term: the homosexual male is most often anally fixated in his romantic aspirations. Freud labeled this immature fixation - an “inversion.” In his famous “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” Freud stated that “…like the homosexuals, the sexual object has been changed…They replace the vulva, for instance, by the mouth or anus.” Yet, according to all reputable studies, the receptive partner in penetrative anal sex is 30 times more likely to be at risk from exposure to HIV than that a receptive partner in vaginal sex; consequently, the CDC estimates that only 4% of men in the United States are MSM, but the rate of new HIV diagnoses among MSM in the United States is more than 44 times that of other men. And, oral sex for gay men is also not a healthy option: oral-anal sex - sometimes referred to as “rimming” can spread infections like HPV, hepatitis B or E. coli. This has much to do with the ultimate design of Nature: the anal lining is thin and easily torn and damaged; the anus lacks the natural lubrication of the vagina; tissue inside the anus does not have a protective barrier of dead skin cells; the anus contains lots of bacteria (from faces) which can pass into the blood stream if tissue is damaged. Would a God that bestows upon us “gifts,” using Mr. Cook’s terminology, give us a desire that is inherently unnatural and dangerous to our very existence?