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

[Chandlersdad]

"Erroneous" is subjective. It all depends on the type of effect you are trying to have. Homosexual orientation might be seen as erroneous by people who have a strict idea about what information they want in the collective etheric thoughtform of their society, but it seems rare that someone would discrimiate against someone for their favorite color. But both are just preferences.

We are each unique, as Ra often stated. But I must disagree with the nnotion that sexual orientation is "just preferences". I knew I was gay by the time I was 8 years old. I hated the idea. I did not want to be gay. It was a huge catalyst for me to discover myself. Yes, I was gay. That was just the way it was. It was not a "preference" like preferring Snickers over Milky Way bars.

I just find it dangerous in our homophobic society to casually refer to homosexuality as a preference like prefering the color blue.

For sure, the process by which ones comes to prefer a color is not as complex as having a preference for a sexual orientation.  I don't think it at all trivializes something if you see it as 'just a preference' but instead validates it.  I don't see a preference as something you just randomly decide one day for fun, but something which builds up over time after much experience.  In that sense you could say that preferences are the ways in which we express our current configuration.  Who knows why we have the preferences we do?  There are probably so many factors that it would be close to impossible to come up with something substantial. 

You seem to have zero empathy for the nature of most homosexual men, which is that they realize quite young that they are sexually different from other boys and that this can cause great anguish. Perhaps you are bi-sexual (as we define it, not as Ra defines it) so that learning over a long period that you prefer men was not more than a mere preference. I am sure that teenagers are not killing themselves over being gay simply because they realized over time with experience that they had a preference for the same sex. It was their sexual orientation. No buts, no caveats, no decisions to make.