147: And what do you say back when the politician says, “That’s nice for you, but I don’t beliebe in God”?
And what do you say to the gay person who says, “Yeah? Well, G-d Created me this way.” Personally I have no answer for that, other than the fact that we all have an achrayus to live a morally correct life as defined by the Torah (and that includes non-Jews). And IF it is so that Hashem created people to be attracted to their own gender, that is no different from Hashem creating the rest of us with a moral imperative to live a chaste life.
Many straight people sadly never get married. Are they not expected to live according to the Torah? Do we throw out everything, because of our taavos, whether or not we are straight, gay, married, or not? Hashem told us what he expects of us. For some of us the challenges and yetzer hara are especially difficult. I feel tremendous compassion for people who are in this awful nisayon, but marriage is already defined by Hashem, and we have gone down a slippery slope in too many states already. Call this legal relationship between the same gender couples whatever you wish (except “married”)and treat them LEGALLY as married couples. But I cannot think of them as married. What’s next – a man can marry his beloved Fido? To quote the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world, what a world…!”