Sexuality corrective required....

adrian reynolds
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I noticed Bish is raving about Torchwood. I only watched 2 minutes (just before the news) which had Captain Jack kissing his (male) paramour. I find this kind of thing really unwatchable. We had just finished watching the excellent The State Within (which makes 24 look like Noddy and Big Ears bake a cake). There a similar thing: one of the characters (the British Embassy spook) was having a homosexual affair with the Defense Under-Secretary. Didn't like it - even though I could see how it was important to the plot.

I convince myself, of course, that this is my inbuilt aversion to sin. Yet when Jason Isaacs (playing the Ambassador) jumped into bed with one of the consuls (played by Eva Birthistle), my heart does not produce the same abhorrent reaction. Why?

It's not that I need to feel less aversion to homosexuality as a sin. It's that I need to think of all sexual sin rightly and clearly. I need to honour and love and cherish and enjoy the wonderful gift that marital sex is; but to feel that any extra-marital sex cheapens the real thing and destroys the picture God has created.

My smug self-satisfaction at an aversion to sin is misplaced. I need to feel it more not less.

8 comments:

Ann said...

We enjoy Torchwood but I find men kissing each other revolting - I actually cover my eyes when I see it coming.(He has done it in a previous episode). I know John Barrowman is gay but why does it have to be in the storyline? It is not what God intended and I know all sin is sin but why do we have to have it shoved in our faces? Also it is a programme that lots of children will be watching which in my eyes makes it even worse. Mind you many TV programmes promote sinful behaviour so are just as bad and I am well aware that we all sin -but I still can't help feeling revulsion.

11:34 AM
dave bish said...

It is an unfortunate aspect of Torchwood... seems a compulsory part of most TV series today.

12:45 PM
Angela said...

I think you people need to get out of the dark ages. Homosexuality is a part of nature, it's been here since the beginning of time. Why it concerns you so much what people do in their bedrooms is beyond me.
And Ann, how do YOU know what God intended? Did he have a one on one talk with you? You need to come to grips with your own homophobia.
And Ann, 2 hot guys making out, wow, you don't know what you're missing! (and I'm a woman too)

Dave it's not compulsory but it should be because gay people are just as much a part of society as straight people are. Deal with it.

4:14 PM
adrian reynolds said...

Angela - "homosexuality is a part of nature, it's been here since the beginning of time." Is that true? On what evidence?

Granted that it may have been, does that make it (or, as I pointed out in my post, sexual infidelity of any kind) right? Arguably there are other things that have been around since the beginning of time, but you and I would agree that they are NOT right.

So what is our benchmark? Or, rather, what is yours, since I've explained mine. I would be interested to know; do post back.

4:51 PM
Si Hollett said...

Isn't the Captain Jack being in a gay relationship thing just part of Russell T Davis' atheistic worldview. Captain Jack was introduced in an serial of Doctor Who with lots of references to sex (interestingly it's implied that the Doctor and Rose sleep together in the serial, however they make that very obscure). When Rose is told that she won't be able to get information off a soldier as not 'his type' (suggesting a very dubious way of getting information), off goes Captain Jack and the Doctor, on prime family watching time, goes off on a spiel on how in the 50th Century, where Jack comes from, most humans are pan-sexual and do it with every-being they can. It ruined what was the best serial of that first series - I couldn't believe that kids were being told by an authority figure (OK, a fictional authority figure, but respected) that being bi-sexual is the future and that we should have lots of sex as that driving force will lead us into a great future. Classic atheistic hedonism, which is the driving force behind pretty much all the writers of our popular TV shows, sadly.

Here's an interesting question - what came first, media portrayal of sinful (ie outside of marriage) sexual relationships as being positive things or society's attitude that sinful sexual relationships as being positive things?

11:58 PM
Anonymous said...

Russell T Davies may not buy the whole Christian package, but he rifles the scriptures for plot lines and thereby introduces timeless truths to a sceptical world. Imagine someone coming into church and discovering "Christ died so that we may live" and thinking - "Gosh - the preacher swiped that idea from Torchwood ..." No - Russell T Davies used it after discovering it in the Gospels.
As to homosexuality - Angela is right. Think David and Jonathan ... it's not a 'sin' - it's a compulsion, it's a life-choice. Get over it.

10:38 AM
Anonymous said...

because todays world needs to be introduced to homosexuality, and this is one aspect of torchwood that the public seems to like.

3:35 PM
Ann said...

Sorry if I'm being naive here, but I thought that part of a loving sexual relationship is to reproduce! Necessary for the human race to continue.

6:56 PM

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