Session 31 - As a Gay Man, I think Ra's take on Homosexuality is idiotic

[rva_jeremy]

The reason for the 'impairment' that Ra associates with homosexuality is because the red-ray energy is both reproductive and part of that initial calling to be of service. Thus the 'impairment' is simply that the individual will have to find an alternative route to move those energies up the centers. 

I buy a lot of what you explained in your post; seems balanced and a way of putting a sympathetic context in those of Ra's remarks.  I'd just point out two things:

1. One of the reasons I said that I simply reject the way Ra framed things is because to accept it would constitute a stumbling block for me and others.  It would be one thing if we could right now ask those of Ra what they "really meant".  That being impossible, we have a binary choice of whether to take or leave it.  Whatever else one might say about this, leaving this view of homosexuality behind is an option that nobody should rule out.  Confederation sources are not authorities.


2. I just want to reiterate that the "impairment" being discussed is a function of the individual's conflict with social norms.  The problem here is that people read "impairment" and think in terms of some kind of lacking or deviation from nature, from what is natural and somehow proper or ordained by the Logos or whatever.  It would be upsetting to me and others if those of Ra's language of male/female archetypical polarity were turned into a kind of essentialist endorsement of certain behaviors and rejection of others.  No, the catalyst here is generated by the individual running up against society and somewhat arbitrary norms, not something innate in the person's mind/body/spirit complex that is wrong or broken.

Nothing above is intended to imply that anybody said any of this about impairment outright; I just thought that some of the talk seemed to dip into arguments from nature and we should be clear what we mean by that.