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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: thames_sider who wrote (132694)3/22/2001 5:01:00 AM
From: cAPSLOCK  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
In the very most restricted sense of the word, homosexuality is a 'deviance' because it prevents reproduction. However, so does celibacy. And sterility. And, of course, contraception.

Hmm... but a central argument (especially recently) for the acceptance of homosexuality as natural centers around the brain or genetics. The other things you mention are either choices or afflictions. So your comparison does not hold.

Unless... you choose to accept the premise that homosexuality is also a choice.

But when you do this you open up a whole 'nother can of worms.

One can point to several reasons for our races problem with homosexuality. If you are spiritually conservative, then it is forbidden by god the same as adultery (in many traditions), and if you are scientifically bent, then it falls in the same sort of biologically inherent taboo as incest (oh I know I have crossed the line now) in that our instinct will resist that inclination for the sake of the species.

The argument for accepting it so as 'not to be mean' (to paraphrase 'E') is really where I fall phillosophically. I, Like Neocon conclude that tolerance is the best stance in the end.

But I cannot close my eyes to the natual fact that no matter how you slice it homosexuality is either a choice, or a defect. The same sort of defect as being born sterile. The same sort of choice as incest.

I believe it is taboo for a reason.
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