Kevin Williams also offers a web site featuring the most extensive information regarding the near-death experience - see it here !  

An NDE story for you

Kevin features a small section on "Gay and Lesbian NDEs." Here is an excerpt of one of the stories:

 

And I thought, "But I can't go back because my body is too far gone, it's beyond repair."

 

And I was also afraid that I could never accomplish, with all of my physical limitations, all that I could do as a spirit form, which felt so free and unencumbered.

 

I remember feeling angry and fearful about going back, after being in all of this light - to have to go back to the darkness. And then I felt the presence of Jesus Christ all around me. The feeling of love was completely overwhelming. I felt as though I was swimming in an ocean of ecstasy.

 

And I asked him, "Do I really have to go back?"

 

And his answer was that I was a part of God's divine plan, as is every person, and that my ultimate purpose is to love and serve God and all sentient beings. And I could tell that he understood all of my fear and doubt. And he assured me that I would heal and recover...

Then Christ said that he would send me guardian angels to aid me in my healing, and to guide and protect me...

I awakened to find two men kneeling over me, with expressions of apprehension and concern on both their faces. For some reason I felt that they might be gay men. They both looked to be in their thirties. I couldn't help but notice how handsome they both were, and that they were beautifully dressed in what appeared to be very expensive business clothes. I remember thinking that they might be some kind of executives working for a corporation, which in fact is exactly what they turned out to be. One of the men obviously had some type of first aid training, and had monitored my vital signs. They informed me that an ambulance was on its way and to try to remain still and not speak, which was easy to do, considering the extent of my injuries. They had both taken off their jackets and laid them over me, and I was horrified to discover that the jackets were covered with blood and completely ruined. I remember feeling embarrassed, and yet enormously grateful for the kindness of these two strangers. Their entire presence was completely warm and comforting, and I felt strangely safe and protected.

They waited alongside me until the ambulance came, and then arrived at the hospital to make sure that I was properly attended to. They visited me in the hospital on two separate occasions. I made a somewhat feeble offer to replace their ruined clothes, but they simply laughed it off, and insisted that the only thing that mattered was that I was alive and more or less in one piece. Again their mere presence filled me with a sense of hope and courage. I felt very strongly that both men symbolized what would prove to be a succession of "angels" that Christ had promised to send me. This, in fact, turned out to be truer than I could possibly have imagined...

 

This article... dedicated to my cousin, my friend

I have a cousin whom I've not seen since we were children. I still remember all of us kids playing tag, running through the tall weeds, on his old farm. I understand that he's a professional person in New York today. A long time ago, in order to pursue a different lifestyle, he decided that he needed to leave our small farming community. To the family's detriment, our loss, he never came back.

This article is dedicated to him, with my best and warmest wishes. And I would like to do what I can, my own small efforts, to remove the toxic superstitions and neurotic fears that surround the issue of homosexuality.

Understanding Homosexuality... just ask any beauty pageant contestant!

This is hilarious, of course. Today, beauty queens rise and fall, are crowned and dethroned, lauded and cast away, depending on how they answer the third-rail questions regarding the gay lifestyle.

You know... there they are, onstage, in all of their sleek, curvacious, and voluptuous glory. First comes the swimsuit competition - strut your stuff, and howd'ya like them ankles; then comes the singing and dancing competition; finally, the crucial test, what all of America really wants to know: how will you perform in the gay-questioning competition?

sigh!

Things I'd like to discuss

Today it's difficult to have a rationale discussion concerning homosexuality.

I would like to touch on two aspects of this heated discussion:

(1) the genetic basis for homosexuality; and

(2) the true reason why some so venomously attack it.

Dick Cheney had it right... "Freedom For Everyone"!

June 1, 2009 news item:

 

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.

 

"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish."

 

Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said marriage has always been a state issue.

 

Civility... the root idea of Civilization

The Nazis would use the phrase "German physics" and how they would not accept "Jewish physics"! Their politics and ideology so poisoned their view of life that it was no longer possible to rationally talk about what should have been clinical, objective, scientific data.

We see this same spirit today in the "global warming" debate - because it's no longer about global warming - it's about politics; about power and control over others.

• Denis Diderot: "There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism."

And we see this same fanatical, legalistic spirit in the "genetics" debate regarding homosexuality. There are some who reject science that isn't "christian," will tell you that there is not an iota of biological basis for being gay - that's it's all a matter of "choice"! And since, so they say, it's a simple choice, those of the gay community are not merely different, but culpable... and worthy of condemnation.

The Gospel According To Mark

Mark is an MD, my next-door neighbor. Dad would not be pleased at my having stopped a man on his tractor! [smile], but I recently walked across Mark's backyard lawn and flagged-down his riding mower.

I asked his opinion about the "genetics" controversy - I wanted to know how he viewed this subject.

Here's what Mark said, and I paraphrase:

"There are three camps regarding this debate. One says that homosexuality is solely a function of nurture and environment; another says that it is the result of genetics; and a third group takes a middle road, a combination of nature and nurture, with a 'triggering event' that causes unexpressed, latent, genetic material to manifest itself."

I found the "triggering event" comment most interesting, as it conforms to what I have learned from Dr. Gerald Schroeder regarding a larger issue, that of evolutionary species-development.

"And what is your personal view?"

"I lean in the direction of the third camp, the genetics and the triggering event." He cited a study, meaningful to him, concerning twins (see below) with highly suggestive correlative data.

The Genetic Basis For Homosexuality:

It is easy to find the following material on the internet, as there is much discussion. Here is a summary of the primary data supporting a biological basis for homosexuality.

I think the answer to this debate will become clear to you. The following are direct quotes, without reference to the sources.

Genetics:  #1

Studies have been conducted that look at twin brothers rather than brothers of different ages. Bailey and Pillard (1991) did a study of twins that determined a 52% concordance of homosexuality in monozygotic twins, 22% for dizygotic twins, and 11% for adoptive brothers of homosexual men. These results, like Hamer's, provide further support for the claim that homosexuality is genetically linked. Studies very similar to the Bailey and Pillard study have been done both with female homosexual siblings and siblings of both sexes. The results for both of these studies were only off from Bailey and Pillard's by a few percentage points. Putting all of these results together, it seems like genetics are at least 50% accountable for determining a person's sexual orientation.

Compared to straight men, gay men are more likely to be left-handed, to be the younger siblings of older brothers, and to have hair that whorls in a counterclockwise direction. US researchers are finding common biological traits among gay men, feeding a growing consensus that sexual orientation is an inborn combination of genetic and environmental factors that largely decide a person's sexual attractions before they are born.

Genetics:  #3

"In the past decade, I think the pendulum has swung more toward biological theory and biological causes," said Richard Lippa, a psychology professor at California State University-Fullerton, who has studied hair patterns and other biological traits in gay men. Sven Bocklandt, a geneticist at the David Geffen school of medicine at UCLA, is bewildered by the argument that people choose their sexual attraction. He said that virtually every animal species that has been studied - from sheep to fruit flies - has a small minority of individuals who demonstrate homosexual activity. "I really believe the reason most humans are straight is the same reason that most crocodiles are straight, and the same reason most whales are straight," Bocklandt said. "Nature would not leave something so important for reproduction, for the survival of the species, to coincidence."

Less understood is the degree to which sexual orientation is determined by genes or environmental factors, such as hormones or immunological factors that may act on a foetus. What scientists call "the fraternal birth order effect," the fact that each successive boy born to the same mother has a greater chance of being gay, may be due to an increasing immunological response by a mother's body to each male foetus in her womb. Long discredited are theories that parenting - one mid-20th century theory held that boys raised by a domineering mother with a distant father were more likely to be gay - has anything to do with sexual orientation. Evidence of that, said Michael Bailey, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Illinois, comes from studies of genetically male infants born with malformed or ambiguous genitals. In many such cases, surgeons would construct a vagina, and instruct parents to raise the child as a girl, with no knowledge of his medical history. As adults, those prenatally male/postnatally female people were virtually all attracted to women, Bailey said. "If you can't make a male attracted to other males by cutting off his penis, castrating him and rearing him as a girl, then how likely is any social explanation of male homosexuality?" he said.

Women may have more fluidity of sexual expression than men, but that doesn't mean they don't have a specific sexual orientation, said Lisa Diamond, a professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah who studies female sexual orientation. One explanation is that women's sexual behaviour is driven more by relationships. For some women, "your sexual orientation does not provide the last word on the sorts of behaviours and identities you might experience in your lifetime," Diamond said. "Some lesbian women are predominantly attracted to women, but some of them have found themselves becoming incredibly close to their best male friends, sometimes having sex with them. It does not make them straight. It's not, since you had a one-night stand with your male friend, that you can choose to become straight."

The preponderance of researchers say attraction is dictated by biology, with no demonstrated contribution from social factors such as parenting or other factors after birth. A host of studies since the mid-1990s have found common biological traits between gay men, including left-handedness and the direction of hair whorls. The likelihood that if one identical twin is gay, the other will be also be gay is much higher than the "concordance" of homosexuality between fraternal twins, indicating that genes play a role in sexual orientation, but are not the entire cause.

Another study done by Simon LeVay focused on the size of INAH3 nucleus of the hypothalamus. He wanted to test whether the areas INAH-2 and INAH3 in the nucleus were different in size not by sex, but by sexual orientation. By proving a difference in size, he could establish that the brains of gay men were similar to that of women's brains. He only found that INAH-2 exhibited difference in sexual orientation. It was two times larger in heterosexual men as homosexual men, and he concluded it was different because of sexual orientation, not because of a difference in sex.

Discussion from others

The following notes were submitted by various individuals. They provide additional information and insight.

Okay. I CHOOSE not to get cancer.... even though it runs rampant in my family's genetics. Wait, how about this. I CHOOSE to avoid the risk factors that can aggravate my GENETIC predisposition to cancer. You see the paradox here? Some homosexuals simply cannot CHOOSE to ignore their make-up. Sure, some who are genetically predisposed to homosexuality can make life choices that steer away from homosexual trigger points, if you will, but that would still require a level of awareness of the disposition, hence the struggle and paradox at hand! You feel what you feel, and you can't CHOOSE to avoid it. Let us not mince words, err, beliefs here. I am a Christian and a very well educated man in the sciences and I do not confuse the facts with the fictions.

Discussion:  #2

i am a homosexual who is living in an islamic country. i did not chose to be gay, if you just think for one second you will realize how ridiculous it is to chose to be gay in an islamic country, because the punishment of homosexuality in islam is just DEATH. from the very first day of my puberty i realized that i have homosexual desires i was truly terrified, because i did not want to be like this. year after year i understood that its something inside me and i don't have any control over it. you know can imagine how hard it is that you are a gay and you cant change it. now i am 25 years old man, who is a medical student and have many achievements in my life (i'm not saying it as a compliment), but has a very sad aspect of life, which is i am still a virgin because i am gay. and if i find a partner and i be arrested i will be killed. i have no desire for sex with women. and let me tell you another fact: my twin brother is homosexual too. and we were both afraid to tell this truth to each other. you cruel people who think that homosexuality is a choice, is better to go and discuss with gay people. you will find out that we all were born that way. again its soooooooooooooooooo ridiculous to think that i chose to be gay in an islamic country.

Discussion:  #3

I don't know if it is ignorance, religious practices, or selfishness that causes some to believe that homosexuality is a choice. Especially after knowing and reading previous accounts of the hardships associated with being gay. I have a little sister, who I love dearly, and am sad that she has to endure such criticism from people who don't even know her. She has been clearly gay from puberty on. She is a smart, creative beautiful woman who is also a doctor. Those of you are so ignorant to suggest that anyone would live a homosexual lifestyle have already made up your stubborn minds and clearly have issues yourselves. And let me tell you all something, you can't change the fact that homosexuality exists, so you may as well go with the flow. These days, thinking that homosexuality is a choice makes you appear uneducated. I am talking about people who are truly homosexual, not just looking for some attention or satisfying their curiosity.

Discussion:  #4

A great experiment would be to ask any number of homosexuals if they feel as if they chose their orientation or if they feel as if a genetic predisposition played a role in their sexuality. I'd bet dollars to donuts that 100% of participants say that homosexuality is not something that can be chosen.  I am a young (25), successful and attractive woman and I haven't had/wanted/or even thought about for that matter, any sort of sexual contact with a man in eight years. Being gay is not an easy lifestyle and no one would choose this. Reading posts about the bible and God's will are actually entertaining to me at this point. Hopefully, someday everyone will get it.

Discussion:  #5

Homosexuality is prevalent throughout nature. Petter Boeckman had an exhibit in Norway displaying homosexuality in the animal kingdom. If you need examples of this there are many articles I am uncovering that might help your understanding that homosexuality is definitively NOT against nature:

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=20718
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior

You can check those out. I have been reading a lot of the comments here and it seems that some people are missing a basic understanding of genetics and the roles of genotypes and phenotypes. I don't claim to be an expert but I do understand enough to say that 58% is a pretty good indicator that homosexuality is affected by genetics. In nature many of the animals that practice homosexuality still produce offspring. There are many reasons why homosexuality could be seen as a positive. A couple hypothesis are that homosexuals in a species help more with rearing the offspring than the heterosexual males, this is seen with a lot of primates and heard animals (as stated in the above articles). Another hypothesis is that in herd animals homosexuality helps with a peaceful means of population control. Just because someone is a carrier of a gene that has a potential of building a person this way or that way doesn't make it 100% so. In science nothing is 100% true, any study that will show you otherwise is not scientific. There is always a potential of fallibility. The big question raised in my mind is that if more people were educated to know that homosexuality is not against nature and is about as natural as breathing, what would the next argument be? I would think that if the people that are saying this are implying that God created nature and God's will is infallible then it would be a contradiction to say that god is against homosexuality at all.
 

Discussion:  #6

I sincerely agree with the research. People who are truely homosexual (not just bi or curious or whatnot), but are truely and innately gay DO NOT have a choice. They are born to be gay, just like someone who is heterosexual is born to be that way. Now, if we DO propose that it is due to environmental factors, then why are some brothers or sisters who live in the same household, and grow up with the same influences, opposite in their sexual orientation? As far as the twins argument goes, genes do not play the entire roll when it comes do determining who we are. The human design is so complex that any change in its design can result in dramatic changes. To say that being homosexual is wrong would be like saying someone born with down syndrome is wrong. If you are going to say that homosexuality is a choice, than you must say that heterosexuality is a choice as well, and that we are all born neutral, and deside "I want to be gay or I want to be straight," which is ridiculous. Imagine if someone ridiculed you for being straight, you would think to yourself, "I can't help it," so why should it be any different for someone who is gay?

Discussion:  #7

Scientists have identified genetics as a cause of homosexuality. This has been accomplished through a type of study on people who identify as homosexual (and non-homosexual as a control group) and a region of the genome to identify whether there is a genetic component to homosexuality. Another type of study, "twin studies," uses pairs of non-twin siblings, dizygotic twins, and monozygotic twins, who share between half and all of their genetic information (non-twin siblings-50%, dizygotic twins-50%, monozygotic-100%). One sibling (or twin) is compared to the other one of the pair in terms of their sexuality, and the co-occurrence is measured across the three types of pairs. A higher co-occurrence of homosexuality among monozygotic twins, who share the same genetic information (compared to dizygotic twins and non-twin siblings who share only half), provides evidence of a genetic link to homosexuality. Both of these types of studies, as well as others, have shown with statistical significance that there is evidence of a genetic component to homosexuality. I have provided links to webpages that reference studies on the topic of a genetic link to homosexuality. Here are a few that seem to support the idea of a genetic influence on homosexuality:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1925
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/12/news/16168.shtml
http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20050128/is-there-gay-gene

Discussion:  #8

Being truly homosexual is not a choice. I believe genetics play the largest part by far in determining an individual's sexuality. I know this as i have always been attracted to boys and men all the way through my life growing up (i am now 23). When i was very young, even though i couldn't interpret my feelings at the time, i recall having sexual desires for boys my age as early as when i was 4 years old. To me this is all the evidence i need to believe the environment i grew up in was irrelevant in determining my sexuality considering i started having these feelings so early. The only choice to make is whether or not to embrace or suppress your inherant sexual desires

Discussion:  #9

You're right. No one needs to tell anyone what they REALLY need to feel. When I was about 12 or 13 years old, I realized I was attracted to the same sex. The church I attended and society in general (represented in large part by my classmates at school) told me that my feelings were wrong. I believed them, and for most of my teenage years I actively surpressed my feelings, dated women, and prayed fervently that I would become heterosexual. You know what? It made no difference. None of it made men any less attractive to me or women any more attractive to me. It only made me miserable. I was so miserable I nearly committed suicide. Why didn't I? Because of precisely what you said. When I dug deep down, I knew what was really wrong. What was really wrong was that I was denying my fundamental nature. I was trying to live my life according to someone else's definition of what is natural and attempting to ignore nature itself in the process. I was attempting to ignore what I REALLY felt. It was then that I realized that maybe all the people who were telling me homosexuality was wrong were, in fact, wrong themselves. Welcome to that group.

Discussion:  #10

Okay, one major thing to point out: monozygotic twins have completely identical DNA, correct? If so, and if homosexuality is indeed genetic, shouldn't there be a 100% rate of matching sexual orientation? And since there is only a 58% match according to this article, doesn't that immediately disprove the idea? Just a thought.

• reply 
 
I do see were you are coming from, it is a good thought, but monozigous twins are not completely identical many factors such as fingerprints, rates of metabolism,and sexuality are not fully developed untill later on in the womb.

• reply 
 
"Okay, one major thing to point out: monozygotic twins have completely identical DNA, correct?" incorrect
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical

Discussion:  #11

I am left handed, both my parents are right handed- so saying that gays are born to straight parents is a pointless argument is utterly absurd. Are you under the ridiculous assumption that every gene is passed and expressed? Then we would expect our fathers to have breasts, and our mothers to have beards. Just because your parents carry genes does not mean you get and express them. Both parents can have blue eyes, but the children have green. Why? Because the parents possess the green gene, and therefore have the POTENTIAL to have it expressed in their off-spring. Besides, they have already said very clearly that genes can play a part but not the entire answer.

Discussion:  #12

On the other hand, many gays are wary of the genetic hypothesis. It could, they fear, help promote the notion that gayness is a "defect" in need of "fixing." "Any finding will be used and twisted for homophobic purposes," says Martin Duberman, head of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "If it does turn out that for some people, there is a genetic or hormonal component, the cry will then arise to take care of that." Indeed, the cry is already rising.

Here's how I see it...

There is so much propaganda surrounding the gay issue.

Notice Discussion #6: "I sincerely agree with the research." I know what he means, but how odd to have to say this! Research - the facts - is what it is! and does not require us to believe in it for it to sustain existence!

Yet, unfortunately, some people do think they are entitled to their own set of facts! We're back to "German physics" and "Jewish physics"!

So much propaganda in the marketplace!

For example, some think that male homosexuals are "effeminate"; but that's a myth. Some are, most aren't. Homosexuals, in the main, throughout history were not viewed in such terms. Just ask King Leonidas; better yet, ask Xerxes...

"Homosexuality has taken place in every society, from the Polynesian to the Eskimo. In certain tribes, the rite of passage is performed through a homosexual act, as a part of cleansing. For the Greeks, homosexuality was a way of life. The Spartans used it as part of their military training. Every young man would have an adult lover who would teach him the arts of war. They would fight side by side, and the idea was that the 'beloved' young man would inspire the 'lover' adult to perform brave acts, who would not want to be disgraced in the eyes of his beloved."

You've heard of the 300 Spartans; maybe you've heard of King Leonidas and his famous "Come and get them!" taunt. This tiny band of Spartans killed 20,000 of Xerxes' elite Persian warriors!

We could use a few Spartans on our team today; instead of "don't ask, don't tell," maybe we should make it a requirement...

How do you argue against this?

I think Mark is right.

There is ample evidence supporting the thesis that homosexuality is genetically based. I hope you study the above points.

The most compelling one, for me, was this:

• "Michael Bailey, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Illinois... studies of genetically male infants born with malformed or ambiguous genitals. In many such cases, surgeons would construct a vagina, and instruct parents to raise the child as a girl, with no knowledge of his medical history. As adults, those prenatally male/postnatally female people were virtually all attracted to women, Bailey said. "If you can't make a male attracted to other males by cutting off his penis, castrating him and rearing him as a girl, then how likely is any social explanation of male homosexuality?" he said.

How do you rationally argue against this?

These baby boys were born with underdeveloped genitalia. A surgeon advises parents to raise these boys as girls! The surgeon castrates the boys, cuts off the ambiguous penis, constructs a vagina! These "boys" grow up thinking - they are told every day - that they are girls! They grow up, in effect, "making a choice," everyday, to be girls - "making a choice" that they should love boys - because that's all they know, because Mom and Dad, since they were babies, have told them that they are girls! Amazing!

• Yet, later in life, these "women," these genetically-constructed men - virtually every one of them - want to make love to women!  All of the "nurturing," all of the "choosing," didn't mean a damn when the DNA came to full bloom - genetics will have its way!

It's a choice, huh?

Look at that note (above) from the gay fellow, the med student, in some dark-age Islamic country... living under the fear of death, every day, that he might be found out regarding his true feelings for the same sex. So, it's just a "choice" for him, huh?

This is such a dramatic example, and we shouldn't even need more evidence than this. But let's consider a more commonplace example. A boy grows up in a community that despises the gay lifestyle. He finally decides to leave in order to live as he is compelled to live; in order to be true to himself.

Is this an easy decision? ... just a simple "choice"?

What it is really like?

It will mean that he will virtually never - very little, if at all - see his grandparents again... his parents... his uncles and aunts... his cousins... his neighbors... his classmates... his closest friends... his brothers and sisters.

He knows that he will be talked about, and thought less of, by many in his past.

Is this an easy decision... just a "choice"?

Think about this.

We live in a society where almost every television ad preaches the virtues of being accepted, of being popular, of being admired and thought well of - and this, they say, is to be accomplished by wearing the latest fashions, driving the right car, drinking the cola with most fizz... whatever.

There is tremendous pressure, on all of us, psychological and otherwise, to conform, to fit in, to be accepted, to be popular. It takes courage even to choose a hairstyle or a pair of jeans that is not approved by the peer group! yet, in the face of great pressure to conform; in the face of the prospects of living a life separated from those of one's past; some decide to be different.

• I don't believe for a moment that such decisions are made without a great deal of pain and anguish - life-long pain and anguish, by ones who can never go home!

You will notice in the testimonies above, so many say: "Nobody chooses this! There are too many negatives to be endured merely to satisfy a whimsical choice"!

And yet, there are those who will not accept the open words, and open hearts, that say, "This is not something I have simply chosen! I am compelled to do this! It is my nature!"

These frank, and often sorrowful, admissions are not good enough for some.

Why is that?

Another case of mistaken identity

Isn't it strange?

We have a whole class of individuals, an entire substrata, who keep telling us, "I did not make a choice! This is how I really feel! This is how I am made! This is who I am!"

But we have another group, largely, The Fundamentalists, who stand in grave judgment and say, "No, you don't feel that way, that is not who you are, you're lying - admit it, you made a choice!"

There is something very unsavory, very inhumane, something very wrong, with this picture!

• Editor's note: The term "fundamentalist" comes from the title of a book, The Fundamentals, published in the early 1900s by some ultra-conservative Roman Catholic priests. Their central theme asserted that the Bible is 100%, every word, dropped from heaven, an Infallible Authority, God's own instruction manual to us! too bad these guys studied only their own censored, church-approved literature; too bad they ended up believing their own propaganda; too bad they didn't read my "15 points" - see P.S. #22 - because, as Judy said, if they really believe what they say, then, obviously, they've never read the Bible!

Almost 40 years ago, Art Mokarow, addressing a group of theology students, offered to us a veiled warning... which went something like this:

• "People get mixed up, screwed up, in their heads by a lot of things in this troubled world. But if you get screwed up because of religion, you will hurt yourself, more deeply, and to a greater degree, than is possible in any other area of life!"

I have thought of this many times over the years. How true are his words, and all of history bears testimony to the veracity of his dictum!

• Because once people convince themselves that "God is on our side," and "We know what God is thinking," then you better be careful, because it won't be long before the shooting starts! The Nazi SS, too, displayed proudly on their belt-buckles: God is with us!

In P.S. #19, 22  I spoke of "mistaken identity," how some misguided religious people will seek for psychological security and safety in the notion of an Infallible Book, in the fantastic notion that God writes books! and they will link their own sense of personal identity to this!

Love In The AfterLife... for everyone!

Several of my forthcoming articles will continue to address Love In The AfterLife... I submit to you that our friends in the Gay Community shall not be excluded from this wonderful future!

Editor's note: This scientist makes the soundly-reasoned claim that there will never be a holistic view of the universe without including the evidence for the AfterLife.

Isn't it amazing, as the scientists (above) state, that homosexuality occurs naturally in so many forms of life? And yet, there are self-appointed ones who try to preach to the rest of us their own version of "normal"!

If homosexuality occurs naturally within the spectrum of "fruit-flies to sheep," doesn't that mean it's "normal"? I grew up witnessing this process virtually everyday among the various farm animals. I thought little about these things at the time as it was so common! Sounds like "normal" to me!

• Silver Birch: "The greatest love is the love that has no trace of selfishness, that does not seek in any way to perform any action because it will bring some satisfaction to the individual. That is human love in its greatest aspect. It is the spirit that has enthused all who desire to uplift mankind, to help the needy, to sustain the weak, to fight the vested interests that prevent the unfortunate from extracting the beauty that life could offer them... The real love ... embraces the whole of humanity. You are not an evolved soul until you can say, because you believe it, I love all mankind."

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