Courier-Journal Reader Responds to Jason Johnson Article
The Courier-Journal published “Student expelled from University of Cumberlands for being gay” on April 11th. Brad Dobney, in an opinion piece responding to the article published today, tells us how every Christian feels about homosexuality (he must know a lot of people):
Christians also believe that homosexuality is a choice, not a fact of nature. A closer look at the theory of evolution (specifically survival of the fittest) would reveal that homosexuality is what Darwin would have called a negative trait. This trait would not have survived naturally, simply because two homosexuals cannot procreate. This defect would have never survived a single generation in a world where evolution truly existed. Creationists assert that God would never create something that is in exact opposition to His spoken word. Following this line of argument you have homosexuality standing alone as something that neither belief can claim is a natural occurence. It must, therefore, be a choice.
Thank you, Dr. Weiss. I thought I had remembered something along those lines but could not recall where I’d seen it; it was “Evolution’s Rainbow”. And who’s to say that there isn’t some as-yet-unknown evolutionary benefit to homosexuality or bisexuality or transgenderism? It took a long time for us to figure out why sickle cell hadn’t disappeared long ago; maybe there is some similarly hidden benefit to sexual and/or gender “deviations”.
This is not in accord with scholarship on the subject, such as Roughgarden’s “Evolution’s Rainbow†and Bagemihl’s “Biological Exuberance,†which demonstrate that homosexual traits are consistent with the theory of evolution.