I am what I feel: the new definition of identity
By John Stonestreet
www.breakpoint.org
June 18, 2014
Ask a group of people todayespecially high school and college studentswhat makes them them, and youll likely get as many responses as respondents. They may say, I am what my genes make me, or maybe I am what I experience, or I am what I choose.
And soon, youll notice two distinct themes emerging. Theyre the answers our culture increasingly gives to the question of sexual identityas if thats all there is to identity. And, ironically, they contradict each other.
We hear the first one all the time from advocates of so-called same-sex marriage: I was born this way, or to quote rap artist Macklemore, I cant change even if I tried. Were all familiar with the argument by now: homosexual attraction is an innate characteristicmaybe genetic. Therefore, denying same-sex attracted individuals the right to get married is the same as racism.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By John Stonestreet
www.breakpoint.org
June 18, 2014
Ask a group of people todayespecially high school and college studentswhat makes them them, and youll likely get as many responses as respondents. They may say, I am what my genes make me, or maybe I am what I experience, or I am what I choose.
And soon, youll notice two distinct themes emerging. Theyre the answers our culture increasingly gives to the question of sexual identityas if thats all there is to identity. And, ironically, they contradict each other.
We hear the first one all the time from advocates of so-called same-sex marriage: I was born this way, or to quote rap artist Macklemore, I cant change even if I tried. Were all familiar with the argument by now: homosexual attraction is an innate characteristicmaybe genetic. Therefore, denying same-sex attracted individuals the right to get married is the same as racism.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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