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"Bi" is a viewpoint with vague but insistence on definitions. We could spend hours trying to pin down what it means and for whatever reasons, and there are many, the lgbtqqiapd2sa "community" as well as straights, seem to prefer that the definition ever be completely resolved.

What I mean by that here is that in his worldview, and I think that of many from his Catholic background, where same sex is just a vice, is the admission that those thoughts occur for many entirely natural reasons, and that the fact that they naturally occur as a temptation of vice is an echo of the Christian idea that we are all flawed and imperfect creatures that need that divine guidance to manifest our better nature as humans rather than rutting animals.

I say that, and believe that about him, because I have heard him describe homosexual thinking several times as just a vice to be abstained from. Thats sort of an admission of both the fact that he, like many, believe that anyone, not just gays, can have those thoughts and feelings, but that its just one of many temptations sexually that are, again, not unique to gays.

And I don't find a lot of room to disagree with that, because we already know that there are more straights who have had same sex experience than there are self identified gay men by a factor of nearly 20 to 1, and thats just the ones who will admit it in studies, despite being entirely phenotypically straight.

Its really only inside the post-Freudian era of pathologized, then tribalized gay identity that we in the modern West have this idea of 'born' homosexuality. Most of the world before and even now still views the interest as a vice, a deviation but not unique to some biological mutant that has yet to be actually cataloged genetically. So there has to be some truth to it somewhere, regardless of how people live within their worldviews, gay or straight, or bi, or anything in between.