The debate of homosexual rights seems to be a particularly divisive one. Having been posting on this message board for only several days I have seen both sides of the argument. There is the religious and the secular. Not surprisingly the religious argument is against homosexual rights. While the secular argument seems, normally to advance the cause.
One argument I’ve read elsewhere is that anti-gay policies constitute gender discrimination. When you think about it though, is it really based on gender? Or is it based on sexual orientation? Perhaps a way to solve this is a “Don’t ask; don’t tell policy.”
Gender is an innate component of a person’s being and an essential characteristic of individual identity and purpose. Marriage is between a man and a woman for the purpose of building a nuclear family--historically where children are raised. Homosexuality is not just another alternative lifestyle or even a sexual "preference;" it is unhealthy and destructive behavior which negatively impacts individual persons, families, and society. Same sex attraction is a symptom of a developmental disorder that can often be prevented and can be treated. Homosexual advocacy groups seeking to normalize homosexual behavior by equating homosexuality with innate characteristics such as race or ethnicity should be opposed.
Reputable studies and decades of successful treatment show that homosexual behavior can be changed. Homosexual activists claim that homosexuality is an unchangeable condition and insist that therapy does not work. They attempt to justify their claim by defining success in absolute terms stipulating that: before treatment a person must have never experienced opposite-sex attraction and never engaged in heterosexual relations. After treatment the person must be fully heterosexual in behavior and never have another same-sex thought or temptation for the rest of his life. This would be the equivalent of saying that no diet program works unless the person never gains back one ounce and is never tempted to overeat again.
Some homosexual groups are fighting for the right to marry. Listen: Homosexuals do have this right. Homosexuals can marry one member of the opposite sex. Furthermore homosexuals are afforded the same citizenship rights as their heterosexual counterparts. They can vote, own property, etc. When homosexuals say they are discriminated against because they are married they are no different than people who are not allowed to marry their children, polygamists, and bigamists.
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