To begin with, it's unlikely that it's going to lead toward helping more people toward fidelity like the helpful little helper Rob Bell apparently thinks. His view is not going to lead toward more and more people having monogamous marriages straight out of the 1950s (only this time, gay) when that custom and tradition is hardly holding together against current trends in the first place. That tradition is itself based on the romantic view of cultivating and sublimating sexual desires for the sake of someone else, as opposed to simply defining yourself by your own desires and then trying to reorient the rest of the world around your own orientation.
I bring up the Golden Dawn in Greece because in my opinion America is essentially being held together by the Almighty Dollar now, in many regions. And that which seems to be holding people together while redistributing wealth from around the world to Americans is ultimately owned by the same banksters that manipulated the abject corruption, lack of accountability and lack of unity in Greece for profit. And now they're moving even more wealth to their private islands and beginning to brazenly take advantage of corruption even in their "home base" of America too, etc. So... how strong are the churches and the "religious" sinews supposedly holding people together in America, again? That's ultimately far more important than anything I'm writing about.
On a side note, it's an interesting juxtaposition to see Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs (i.e. the people responsible for profiting off Greek corruption) advocating for same sex marriage in America, while the Golden Dawn rises from the occult and meanders toward fascism in Greece and so on. Because this is the most likely trend if the American Empire doesn't hold together and people actually begin to get hungry, although it will take it a while and hit certain regions before others it seems like it may be likely to happen (even more than it already has) in our lifespans. And once the Almighty Dollar of the banksters (inc. in Delaware, of course) under which the masses really seem to worship is burned or finally done away with more than it already has been, what then about the idea of defining different people by their sexual desires or focusing exponential amounts of time and energy on the theatrical production of yet more happy and gay forms of entertainment? What then about the idea of spending wealth and resources on other entertaining ideas like transcending sex for transexuals or Rob Bell's idea of trying to turn the behavior patterns of gay men into something straight out of the 1950s? What then... if the masses in America actually grow hungry? Hunger > sex and takes primacy as a primal urge. Just saying. (Although we do have a lot of fat saved up for the possibility of lean years, I guess.)
Another side note, when it is said that people are their desires (sexual or not) and that their desires define morality for them or different groups, then don't be surprised if people get trampled to death at Walmart when people want what they want when they want it. And given that's already happened even when the Almighty Dollar is generally still holding Americans together, it's unlikely that everyone will be riding around on free imaginary ponies pooping rainbows of tolerance on everyone else if the bankster's paper ponzi and petrodollar no longer holds together enough to redistribute energy and resources to them in reality. So how strong is the church and the supposed religious sinews of America, again?
Thought this was interesting:
I was speaking with one of my gay friends recently and he shared this revelation, "I want to find a church that isn't dying. All of the affirming churches are old, dead, boring, and do not talk about Jesus." As we talked further it became apparent to me that he knew what he was looking for is a pot of gold on the other side of a fictitious rainbow. You can't worship Jesus authentically while we continue to worship ourselves based on a homespun theology. Rob, like so many of us, traded in the absolute authority of God's Word for his feelings. Objective became subjective.
You can look at it that way. You could also look at it based on objective facts like history or even mathematics and physics and their role in "the economy"/ecology. I.e... people usually only entertain themselves with rainbows of tolerance that split the light when they feel like they have enough wealth and light for themselves to do so. But for all our techniques and technologies, we're still a long way from having an infinite source of energy that would allow for transfiguration and allow us to transcend basic biological categories like sex.
There's nothing new under the sun. But imagine this... if "it was written" in the Bible or in our DNA or rigorously specified in some way that "Straight and gay, He created them." then it's likely that utterly ignorant "therapeutic Christians" would be wandering around by happenstance (based on random brain events emerging from the void and from the bowels of their churches, etc.) to evolve and "adapt" toward the idea that the categories of "straight" and "gay" didn't even exist. Meanwhile, they'd be trying to invent their own categories and identities even if they had to essentially mutilate themselves, focus on deformities in form or find ridiculous excuses to come to that position. Actually, they might even be led through a series of totally random events in their brains and bodies to try to call their new and totally immutable categories of people "male and female"... and then we could imagine this imaginary scenario coming full circle back to some semblance of reality.
Imagine that.
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