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Herman Cain Speaks Bluntly: ‘I Believe Homosexuality Is a Sin … Their Choice’

Posted on | June 9, 2011 | 68 Comments

In an interview on CBS News:

“I believe homosexuality is a sin because I’m a Bible-believing Christian, I believe it’s a sin. But I know that some people make that choice. That’s their choice.”

OK, I know for a fact that Herman Cain has GOProud supporters, and it will be interesting to see their reaction to this.

Cain is trying to focus his campaign on jobs, the budget and economics — these are his strengths, as a business executive — but he necessarily gets asked by reporters about all sorts of issues. A key factor in Cain’s appeal is his plain-spoken nature and, when asked about homsexuality, he stated (a) his personal belief as a Christian, and (b) his libertarian understanding that people have to live their own lives according to their own choices.

For two decades at least, gay activists have used the “born that way” argument in an effort to gain civil-rights protection for homosexuals, attempting to make sexual preference a hereditary factor analogous to race. So Cain’s remark about sexuality as a “choice” is likely to offend gay activists as much as his remark about “sin.” But I think it’s important to grasp the libertarian sense in which he uses “choice.”

Beyond that, will this help or hurt Cain?

Remember that Iowa is the No. 1 objective for Team Herman. If he were to win the Iowa caucuses, that would be a political earthquake, and his campaign leadership really believes that they can make that happen with a volunteer-based grassroots effort.

So, consider what Cain said, and ask yourself: Is this likely to offend the typical grassroots conservative Republican in Iowa?

Nope. Not even a blip on the radar.

By the way, Herman Cain will be one of the featured speakers at Right Online, which starts June 17 — a week from Friday — in Minneapolis. You should sign up now.

UPDATE: GOProud activist Christopher Barron:

The truth is that Herman Cain is running on a campaign centered on conservative policies that would improve the lives of all Americans – including gay Americans.

UPDATE II: Linked by Lisa Graas — thanks!

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  • http://profiles.google.com/caljrel James Knauer

    Lisa Graas said, “What you do in your bedroom is your business. What you do in the courthouse is my business. ”
    Correct on count one.  Correct on count two only to the extent records are public, and you have a free choice to read those records or not.  What goes on inside is controlled by the judge.  Many things transpire there, 99.9% of them worse than gay marriage, and we don’t control those outcomes, either.

    In civil marriage, this would exclude you unless you were there to get hitched.

  • Anonymous

    The Bible is clear homosexuality is sin and a choice. The catholic church, if they believe that,  is wrong.

    Jesus refers to the Law (Moral Law) and the Prophets (Judges), not the rites and rituals of the Mosaic Law which was done away with. The substance is of Christ.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    The Vedas are against lust, and giving in to despair, among other things, because it prevents you from escaping the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. I don’t even want to think what being tangled in a gay lifestyle would cause you to come back as.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    What goes on inside is controlled by the judge.

    …who is a public employee conducting public business at taxpayer expense.

    …you have a free choice to read those records or not.

    But I don’t have a choice about paying for the proceedings in which they’re generated. That makes them the public’s business whether you like it or not.

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  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    I don’t buy the choice argument either. I think its ingrained from an early age, but sorry its still not natural, and the marriage bit is over the top.

  • Anonymous

    You’re just rabid. Period. Full stop.

  • Anonymous

    Joe, that question was answered in the Book of Acts when Jesus appeared to Peter and revoked the Jewish dietary restrictions and circumcision.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Knauer, someday they will find that “gay gene”. And between home genetic testing and abortion on demand there will be far fewer gays than there are today.

  • Anonymous

    You are projecting.  The Vedas talk of love, romantic and platonic love.  You suggest same sex partners cannot attain such.  You suggest homosexuality is only lust.  As with heterosexual behavior, homosexual behavior runs a wide range of behavior.  Not every hetero Tweets penis pix, nor every homo, live in San Fran.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Homosexuality is only lust. So is heterosexuality. Sex at its core is lust, that’s the point, and when somebody defines themselves by their sexuality they are defining themselves by that lust. If two males lovers or two female lovers can establish a monogamous relationship based on love, that might well be a different thing, but when they politicize their sexuality to the extent they demand the right to have officially sanctioned and recognized marriages and the right to adopt children, that’s going beyond the boundaries of what should be socially acceptable. No one is saying two gay lovers can not draw up a legal contract between each other that affirms property rights and transfer of assets but that should be as far as it goes. A mutual, legally binding contract between two consenting adults. There’s no need to march in the streets for that.

  • Anonymous

    Project much?

  • Anonymous

    Project much?

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Yep, you’re a leftist. As soon as you make an argument a leftist can’t respond to rationally they start either with the name calling or accusing you of projection. Thanks for conceding the argument by default.

  • Anonymous

    No, not left.  Just not hung up on sex like you. The Vedas are clear that sex is natural function.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    I’m surprised they haven’t already “found” it. They probably will eventually, by way of process of elimination. “Well, this one stands for this, that one stands for this, but we just can’t figure out what this one here stands for. By Jove, it must be gay.”

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  • Tennwriter

    I’m going to agree with George Gilder. Homosexual behavior is like drug addiction. Once you try it, it can feel terribly natural.  And most people who fall this way had to fall through a number of gates to get that messed up.

    Maybe you had a genetic proclivity for super skinny girls, and your father did not guide you, and you didn’t listen in church, and all the pretty girls at school laughed at you, and you met a rather cool and good looking guy who kissed you….BAM…Homosexuality is Genetic Activist is born!

    So, no, no one is going to find a real ‘gay gene’.

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