How does homosexual activity benefit society?

[Father Heathen]

Leave the classroom, not the school itself. Anything religious in nature is not enforced, merely done on one's free will.

Why can't the students who want to pray do so before or after school, or between classes? School should be focused on education. Preachers have no business being preachers, especially when they work for the government and are paid by the tax payers. Save the religious shenanigans for the churches.

 

[sojourner]

My tastes change all the time. I choose my tastes.

My sexual preference? Vore. Doesn't mean that's morally acceptable, and I do my best to avoid vore.

So yeah, you can form a homosexual relationship all you want. Doesn't mean I will support it any more than I can support a dear friend's pornography habit. My moral connotation to homosexuality is the fact that it is a counterfeit for the family, which is instituted of God.
The Family: A Proclamation to the World

You can have your counterfeit. I won't stop you. I won't support you either. You have your free agency, but just remember that it is a two way street.

Vore is not a "sexual preference." It's a sexual fetish. There's a big difference. I suspect Vorarephilia appears in the DSM.

 

[McBell]

That still doesn't answer my question. Many of them have never chosen to become what they became. Why would God let them be born the way they were? Why would God damn them to a life of misery and an afterlife of fire and brimstone before they were even born?

Perhaps you should try getting the answers from god?

good luck with that.

 

[sojourner]

Because it is a counterfeit for something instituted of God.

How is it a "counterfeit?" What is that "something instituted of God" that homosexuality is a "counterfeit" of?

 

[McBell]

How is any of that relevant to the topic of this thread?

For some people their religious beliefs are all they got...

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Vore is not a "sexual preference." It's a sexual fetish. There's a big difference. I suspect Vorarephilia appears in the DSM.

It is considered a possible paraphilia if acted upon.

 

[sojourner]

They have a choice to refuse reparative therapy. The only point I am making is that it is a two way street. Those who sincerely believe that they need to change will likely be able to develop proper relationships with the opposite sex, and yet still retain their old tendencies. Tendencies are not sins, actions are.

Could you learn to like sex with another man? Sexual identity is much more than just a "preference."

 

[cablescavenger]

Lesbians are able to bear children by in vitro fertilization.

Homosexuality helps to limit dangerous runaway population growth. There are far too many people in some countries, not too few. In addition, every new person on the earth contributes to global warming, and uses valuable food and water resources.

What options does nekoboy suggest for homosexuals? Even some supporters of reparative therapy have admitted that it only works about 30% of the time, and works best by far for religiously motivated homosexuals.

Many homosexuals have unsuccessfully tried to give up homosexuality, and became very unhappy during their attempts to give it up.

Initial sexual identity is not a choice, and is generally difficult to change.

It teaches society the limits of their control.

 

[sojourner]

Gays don't have to make up the excuse "I was born that way" because God gave people free agency, even over their own weaknesses.

First of all, it's not an excuse. It's a statement of fact. Second, sexual identity is not a "weakness." It's an integral part of human nature.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Since homosexuality isn't a paraphilia, but a sexual identity, this question is not germane to the topic at hand.

Correction: homosexuality is not a sexual identity it is rather an sexual orientation. Because it is an orientation it is not considered paraphilia but natural.

 

[sojourner]

The only thing I can do, most of the time, is to ask people to UNDERSTAND.

How can ask something of someone else that you're unwilling to do yourself???

 

[sojourner]

I'm sorry, but most of my research is "biased", according to you.

maybe you need better research...

 

[Father Heathen]

I personally cannot take anyone's freedom away

But you've stated yourself that you would vote to take people's freedom away.

 

[McBell]

How can ask something of someone else that you're unwilling to do yourself???

Um...
because it is not "understanding" that he really seeks, but "agreement"?

 

[sojourner]

The only evidence that you really appeal to is "the Bible says so," certainly not to any scientific evidence.

And the Bible doesn't even "say so..."

 

[Father Heathen]

It isn't, but it sure is insufficient.

And irrational, unsubstantiated superstitions are?

 

[waitasec]

I personally cannot take anyone's freedom away, but I will not support certain things either.

you mean like not supporting other peoples freedoms?

 

[waitasec]

Um...
because it is not "understanding" that he really seeks, but "agreement"?

wait aren't they the same thing?
:sarcastic

 

[sojourner]

Zoophiles and pedophiles are expected to put up with that misery. Homosexuals have a choice not to do that, but I will not support them either.

(Hint: Note that the suffix "phile" does not appear in "homosexual.")

 

[Meow Mix]

It is a mild form of communism. It involves running government programs by confiscating wealth from citizens. These programs should exist at the state level if they are to exist at all.

Do you consider maintaining roads, fire departments, and police departments socialism?

Whatabout maintaining the FBI and CIA, or the military?

Do you think social security is socialism?

Now, furthermore, do you believe all of those socialist things I just mentioned are inherently bad because they are socialist?

The point is, socialism is not a catchphrase for "bad" or "rights infringing."