We Need Morality - Not Moralizing!
People moralize when they use morality as a weapon against people they disagree with. Some principles are in dispute: is homosexuality wrong? We can obviously disagree about this. Many, if not most people, see morality through the lens of religious belief. Although the Bible has some prohibitions of homosexual behaviour, it also has prohibitions against wearing fibres mixing wool and linen together. And like mixing fibres together, homosexuality is not a major theme of the holy scriptures. It isn’t one of the ten commandments. Jesus never mentions it, although Paul condemns certain kinds of behaviour. It’s not really a thing in the Bible. You can go through the whole Bible and you will find very little about homosexuality. It is definitely not an important Biblical theme. Nowadays there is a strong feeling among many of us that homosexuality doesn’t do any harm, unless by harm you mean ruining a parent’s exp...