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

[Billy]

Carla wrote "There are no homosexuals. There are only homosexual acts."

I am sorry but Carla was wrong. There are homosexuals who never partake of a homosexual act. My parents and I knew I was very different from other boys by the time I was 8 years old, long before I had any sexual feelings whatsoever. My interests were feminine according to our society. I was a gentle person who could not understand the walls that other boys put up amongst their tribe (fighting physically, calling each other by their last name, enjoying violence via sports....).  Homosexuality is not simply an act. It is a unique sense of self.  I wonder if naive Carla ever noted that right wing religions agree with her. "God does not make people gay. There are no homosexuals. There are just evil men who CHOOSE to have gay sex, a malicious act against god and decency".

I think that Carla was more so trying to express that we are so much more than our sexuality, not that everyone is heterosexual and some simply choose to be gay.  That's how I took this quote anyways:

You have the tendency towards homosexual acts, but you are no more a homosexual than I am a heterosexual. We are people. We are human.

I think she was saying that labels can obscure what is going on energetically, and that homosexuality is just as valid as heterosexuality. I think it is a call to not get so caught up by what something looks like and instead realise that it is the same love/energy, or at least it can be, just a different expression/form. The painter who,inspired by love, paints a garden, has the same energy working through him, as the painter who inspired by love, paints a sunset.