The media spends an endless amounts of time on the topic of משכב זכור and its accessories.
Some comments:
- This is not our way b/c talking about it incessantly is IMMODEST. If there is a benefit then it should be addressed [ideally] privately and only as much as necessary.
- The vast majority of people are regular, straight heterosexual people. Why does the slim minority get so much press?
- It is a challenge to be a Jew and to have inclinations and desires for behavior that is forbidden such as having relations with members of the same gender or to have surgery to attempt to alter ones gender. But let us not forget - the nature of the male is to want to have far more than the one female partner that he is limited to. So almost EVERYONE has to control forbidden urges. The average male is attracted to a woman about one-fifth of a second after seeing her. He doesn't need more than that to want to get to "know her better". So he has to control himself thousands of times a month - even if he is not looking on purpose. [It is not exactly comparable but the point is significant]. Life is about self control [among other things].
- Again and again, those in the Jewish liberal camp talk about how we must be "sensitive" to the struggles of those who have SSA [same sex attraction]. If that were the only issue then there would be no argument. Nobody says that we should be insensitive [I hope]. The issue is that what that homosexual community wants is legitimacy. They want to hear that we respect and even support them in their decision to engage in משכב זכור. This of course can never happen b/c that would constitute a rebellion against Hashem and His Torah. Back when I was young and this wasn't a public issue there were plenty of homosexuals walking around. They went to shul and received aliyos and kibbudim like everyone else. This is b/c they kept their aveiros private. They didn't celebrate them, march in parades expressing their pride in their sins and then come to shul and expect Maftir. That is what is happening today. If a homosexual wants to be treated equally in shul then he shouldn't advertise his aveiros, just as we straight men don't celebrate the fact that we often desire other people's wives, non-Jewish women and random women we happen to see on the subway or on the street. It is an aveirah we are ashamed of and instead of celebrating, we work on eliminating.
- The very foundation of our service of Hashem is קדושים תהיו. So משכב זכור is not just another aveirah with the death penalty [!!!] but also an assault on קדושים תהיו. The very first mitzva in the Torah is פרו ורבו. It goes w/o saying that משכב זכור is an act of war on פרו ורבו and the perpetuation of the Jewish people.
