Alikhaa wrote:My opinion on homosexuality is not completely solidified because I don't have every single fact available on the subject.
However, the way I see it, there is enough doubt about whether or not God prohibited it that it is safer to stay far away from it. After all, the only force towards it is lust, which can be easily ignored by one's more advanced consciousness, relative to our "old brain", the more instinctual animal one, which generally defines our baser drives.
I know full well that I could be gay (or more accurately, lesbian) and I would be plenty comfortable in a relationship with a woman, since I tend to be fairly manly. I could certainly psychologically evoke feelings of lust for either sex. But I have chosen to be straight and spend my time with one partner because that's the most efficient way to go about life. For one matter, it streamlines genetic reproduction. For another, it encourages relatively clean sexual intimacy.
And lastly, I see that the direction of society in embracing public homosexuality is incorrect. It glorifies lust and the baser drives, prioritizing our old brain over our more evolved and advanced intellect, and this can leak through to other facets of society. It generally results in promiscuity, which looks to spread sexual diseases. It makes friend relationships between same-sex people charged with sexual tension, which makes them at times awkward and less close than they could be otherwise. It keeps certain people from putting their genes in the gene pool when maybe they might be very intelligent or strong and the future would benefit from their reproduction.
I'm not going to tackle the reproduction issue too much, though, because the world is overpopulated already.
This is not to say that all gay or lesbian people are motivated solely by base drives, or promiscuous. But that can be stated as the general fact, applying to the community, and not to the individual.
Humans are social animals, and the community is highly important. We should always try to operate with the community in mind, and while preserving the rights of the individual to benefit the community in any way they please, prohibit the right of the individual to harm the community either socially or physically.
My opinion as of now (it could be swayed by logical arguments, but not emotional ones) is that homosexuality is psychological. This doesn't mean that it has been chosen, just as bipolar disorder isn't a choice - and it does not imply that sexual orientation can be cured by electro-therapy.
You're right, you don't know what you're talking about. I take your slander of the gay and lesbian community as a personal insult.
