Homosexuality is making some big waves in Hollywood, where a number of celebrities have either recently "come out" or offered support to efforts to normalise a behaviour that many still agree is unnatural.
Most recently, former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken publicly announced that he is gay, appearing on the cover of the latest People magazine holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken.
"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken told the magazine, which arrives on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."
Aiken's confession comes less than two weeks after another self-professed born-again Christian, CCM veteran Ray Boltz, made public his struggle with and eventual acceptance of his homosexual desires.
The Christian blogosphere was set abuzz after the pro-gay Washington Blade published an exclusive feature earlier this month on Boltz, who only four years ago revealed to his family "the darkness and struggle" he was going through.
In the recent interview, the Gospel singer said he denied his sexuality ever since he was a kid, and after praying hard and trying for 30-some years, he found himself saying 'I'm still gay. I know I am'.
But while many out-of-the-closet Christians insist they are merely accepting themselves the way God created them and that homosexuality is not a sin, there are others who argue otherwise.
"Contrary to what is frequently and erroneously stated in the media, there is no scientific or psychological proof that homosexuality is anything other than a behaviour pattern that manifests itself in certain individuals for a variety of reasons, including psychological, social, environmental, behavioural, and genetic predispositions working together to produce the homosexual person," says Dr David E James, whose new book, God's Truth about Gender, addresses the question, 'Does God really create some people as homosexuals?'
