What is “natural”?
Posted: August 9, 2011 at 8:53 pm | Tags: Christianity, lgbtiq, politics, ReligionFred Nile decided to have a hate filled rant today after Penny Wong shared her happy news that her partner was pregnant and thanked the IVF services that made this possible. I don’t want to give Fred Nile more air time, because I don’t think he deserves it, but I do want to focus on just one tiny point he’s made that is just so silly that it needs to be looked at.
She needn’t have made it public – it just promotes their lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where it’s unnatural.
Fred Nile is clearly an arbiter of what is and what is not natural and he should be the man we all approach whenever we want to ask what is and what is not natural. Because really, what is “natural”?
If we go back to the Bible that Fred Nile believes that all of us (even those that aren’t Christian) should follow, it has a lot to say about what is good and what is bad, but doesn’t focus all that much on what is natural and what is unnatural. Clearly Nile believes that unnatural things are bad, so modern society with our reliance on technology, plastics and machines must be unnatural, since they are not directly from nature. I’m sure that Nile would agree that modern society is a bad thing, what with our desire for equality for the LGBTIQ community, so Nile must also be pushing to return modern society back to an agrarian age where we lived more in harmony with nature (including suffering from natural diseases and famines).
Perhaps Nile is suggesting that being queer is unnatural, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary in nature. After all plenty of animal species show evidence of homosexual and/or trans* behaviour, and nothing is more natural than animals in the wild. So if animals in the wild are busy shagging whatever takes their fancy, why is it unnatural that some humans are doing the same? What is so unnatural about same sex relationships when taken into broader consideration with the whole animal kingdom, especially as we evolved from an ape-like ancestor?
Even if Nile is a creationist (it’s hinted at in his Wikipedia profile), according to his beliefs god created every person in His image (capitalisation only for differentiation between Nile and god), so if god created queer people, then surely that’s god’s will. Who is Nile to say what is and what is not natural when god has created someone to be who they are?
In the end, surely what would be more unnatural would be someone who is same sex attracted forcing themselves to be in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex just to satisfy the desires of conservative Christian wankers.
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If Fred Nile would like to set an example and give up modern medicine, antibiotics and go live in a cave, I think a lot of people would be much happier.