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AliasL's brother says: Or we could just get rid of all this Christian hoopla? smile

I'm going to go against the crowd a bit here. Curious to see how this turns out.

I personally believe homosexuality is wrong. Let me clarify real quick. Homosexuality in and of itself is not wrong, as it is not a choice, and in many cases is not reversible. Since it is something you cannot deal with or didn't decide, it is positively tyrannic to call it totally wrong.

Were my problem begins is with the practice and social acceptance of homosexuality. I have many reasons, but some are religion based and thus invalid to be considered.

From a naturalistic viewpoint, homosexuality is a perversion. Yes, true, it does exist in nature, but only where the male/female ratio is out of balance. When that balance is restored, we find that formerly homosexual creatures cease practicing in favor of a partner of opposite sex. It is humanity that has taken this practice to an unnatural level.

The bigger issue, though, is the effect on society if homosexuality is accepted. There is a phrase, "give him an inch, he will take a mile." This can be reflected in what might happen if homosexuality is accepted. As it becomes more commonplace and accepted, soon more perverse acts, such as sexuality with animals or inanimate objects, no longer become so perverse. As time goes by necrophilia and ***** might not appear so perverse, as the human society has become to accept these things. Need an example? In the 1890's the divorce rate in America was (if my memory serves me correct) between 10-20%. At the time it was considered a social crisis, that 1 in 4 marriages ended in divorce. Today, the divorce rate is 50%. Half of all marriages end in divorce. As the American society became more lenient to the concept of divorce, and thus made it easier, the rate soared. The same goes for general promiscuity. Some time ago, open promiscuity was looked down upon and considered vile. Today, the stereotype exists that if one doesn't engage in sex, or is obsessed with sexuality, then they are not living life to its fullness, or are a "nerd" or "Jesus Freak". It is perfectly logical to predict a similar issue occurring with Homosexuality.

Like I said, I have nothing against homosexuals themselves. Several members of my family are homosexuals. What abhors me is the practice of homosexuality and how society is being forced to change for homosexuals.

While some people are actually born homosexual, others decide to "experiment" because they see others doing it. In this regard I agree with In_Fyniti, if standards are lowerd, than people for whom the standard does not apply will be led astray. If this happens to a great extent homosexuality will become and extreme type of birth control. Though the world is over populated during this period in time, if people stop being able to have children (because of homosexuality) the world could have a serious problem on its hands.

I personally do not think homosexuality is wrong, but be incredibly biased for one major reason. However, although it hurts me when I read any anti-gay (particularly religious) work, I accept that it's they're opinion. I'll have an incredible issue with it if they start enforcing it in some way, but until then I'm quite happy knowing I have no problems in my life, I'm in a loving, stable relationship, and they cannot do anything to harm that.

::nods:: My argument applies more to the future than it does to the present. If homosexuality becomes generally accepted the frequency of its occurance will increase [the way divorce rates shot up once it was accepted]. If that sort of mentality begins to affect even those to whom it does not truly apply, they we could have some serious population issues later on.

To be honest, I don't think there should be denied 'rights' when it comes to anyone being married. I don't think it should be legal to marry someone. I don't think it should be illegal either. I think marriage should be what it was before it made its way into the legal system: a religious institution/tradition. The government is stupid and gave benefits to heterosexual couples who decided to marry. They shouldn't have done that because now people are complaining that they aren't getting the same special treatment as the people who are heterosexual. I say we take marriage out of politics completely, as it is not an issue that even needs to be in the political arena in the first place. Freedom of religion and the right to practice it, sure, but to give those who practice marriage special rights that others don't get is just stupid. These homosexual couples wouldn't be complaining about denied rights if other people weren't getting rights that they shouldn't have gotten in the first place.

If someone wants to marry their pet tarantula, so what? That just means they're married to a tarantula. That shouldn't mean that the tarantula should inherit everything automatically should that person die without leaving a will. If we give married people a special set of rights, damn we'd end up with a lotta rich tarantulas. xp

Yeah. The tarantula thing shouldn't be a 'marriage' unless the person's religion okay's it. Marriage is man + woman thing in Christianity and that's just fine. If someone makes up their religion and decides that in said religion it's ok to unite themself with Sparky, their resident meal worm, whatever. I think, however, that instead of marriage, there should be some sort of way to add people to your family. You know, the way you can adopt a child and it becomes part of your family. That way if people want their other half to be able to make medical decisions for them and stuff like that, they'll be able to. As far as the will thing goes, I think that if you don't care enough about who's getting your stuff when you kick the bucket to actually write out a will, it should go to the state. So go write wills, people, or the government liquidates your baseball cards! xp

look i'm sorry but if it dont end with kids...
well you get my point i got no problem with the people them selfs just you know that particular thing they do, thats all