Homosexuals Are a “Distinct Class” Rev. Dr. Mel White wrote that in 1864:
“German Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first social scientist to declare that homosexuals were a distinct class of individuals…We aren’t just heterosexuals choosing to perform same-sex behaviors…homosexuals had been around from the beginning of recorded time, that we were ‘innately different from heterosexuals,’ that our desire for same-sex intimacy and affiliation is intrinsic, natural, inborn and/or shaped in earliest infancy…The Biblical authors knew nothing of homosexual orientation as we understand it, and therefore said nothing to condemn or approve it…they should not be considered the final authority on sexual orientation any more than they are the final authority on space travel, gravity, or the Internet…since Jesus and the Jewish prophets were silent about any kind of same-sex behavior, I am persuaded that the Bible has nothing in it to approve or condemn homosexual orientation as we understand it.”
Note the confusion and the ubiquitous qualifiers “as we understand it…as we understand it.” No, the Biblical authors are not the final authority on space travel, gravity, or the Internet because they were not addressing gravity and because space travel and the Internet did not exist.
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
However, homosexuality did exist “from the beginning of recorded time” and the issue was addressed. The claim that it was not “as we understand it” is a circuitous fabrication.