In Reply to: Re: I vote for accepting one another's individualities. posted by Farmer on March 26, 2007 at 07:43:01:
Homosexual marriage is not based upon lust. It's a commitment just like Heterosexuals make, to spend their lives with that one person. And just like Heterosexuals, YES, some do divorce, some believe in serial monogamy, some cheat and commit adultery. That is human nature and not about sexuality.
The AMA and APA, the professionals, agree that homosexual is a normal variation of sexuality and a minority variation. As MG said, there are many who choose to be with someone they fall in love with being more bisexually oriented and it being about the person more than the sexual genitalia.
Society is very slow to catching up with science, but it is a known fact that the homosexual orientation has been around from the beginning. At times and places in history it was accepted, religion being the biggest factor in forcing people to go against their nature and try to be straight, or to put on a straight appearance, like to get married heterosexually, in order to be accepted by the world at large.
Homosexuality is no more wrong than being left handed is. And there are those who recently punished people and condemned them to hell for that!
Sexuality is not sin. Behaviors that are considered "sin" in many societies at large, like adultery, are things people sometimes do regardless of their sexuality.
No one ever claimed that homosexuals are not subject to any deviancy a human being can have.
But homosexuality is not of itself deviant according to scientists and professionals. Therefore there is no "legitimate" therapy that attempts to "straighten out" a person.
Individual professionals may be anti-gay according to their religious beliefs, but their SCIENCE does not allow for labelling what is natural to be called "deviant".