Though sin dreadfully thwarts the fulfillment of the principles by which our nature operates, not even sin can obliterate them. Our nature, though wounded, persists.
Since student letters day is Monday, why am I posting this letter on a Thursday? Because it’s not from a student. I thought it would be interesting anyway.
Query:
Finally, the uneasiness of heterosexuals about their own conduct may manifest itself as a misplaced scruple against hypocrisy. They ask how we dare to disagree with anything said in favor of homosexual acts. After all, we don’t hear many complaints about heterosexual misbehavior, do we?
That’s true, and there is only one possible reply: We ought to.
Monday is student letter day. I have cherished this letter for more than a decade, and I think of the writer often. The version you see here is slightly shortened.
Her letter:
I am not a Christian, but I am writing to tell you that you are right, and I was wrong.
“He who will be a man, and will not be a child, must -- he cannot help himself -- become a little man, that is, a dwarf. He will, however, need no consolation, for he is sure to think himself a very large creature indeed.”
Acts have consequences, and some of these consequences are natural. To put it differently, whatever we do has results, and some of them result from what we are.
Our perception of meaning in the human person is manifold, for the entire fabric of our nature, extending through all its dimensions, chants to us of inbuilt purposes. Sexuality is no exception. Our bodies sing of the complementarity of the male and the female, and our spirits sing along in polyphony.
Natural law inescapably concerns human nature. Not only do the heavens proclaim the glory of God; so do our own minds and bodies. We are fearfully and wonderfully made, creatures of pattern, design, and inbuilt meaning.