Normal’ is both hard and easy to prove depending on what you mean by ‘normal’
They are normal in a sense that society accepted it and that many people are homosexuals.
If you want to give me a better meaning of the word ‘normal’ please do so.
We are here dealing with an issue in a branch of philosophy, known as ethics or moral philosophy. So we are not talking about the “statistically normal,” but about the morally normal. Something similar may be considered regarding our physical health. Mathematics or numbers alone do not make a condition normal. For example, there is perhaps nothing more common than the common cold, but that does not make the common cold normal. Notwithstanding its frequency, the common cold is still a sickness, an abnormality, because it falls short of the “norm” of what constitutes a healthy human being.
Having said that, we can also say that a “morally normal human act” is not necessarily that which is commonly accepted by society, or by a lot of people, or even by the majority of people. The issue is not whether an act is
accepted, but whether it is morally
acceptable. The number of people accepting or tolerating the act is irrelevant. What is important is to recognize that a human act is morally acceptable and, therefore, “normal,” only if it conforms with the intrinsic natural purpose of the act. For example, the
intrinsic natural purpose of speech is to communicate truth. So, if you use speech to tell a lie, then it is not morally normal. And it does not matter whether there are many people who lie, or whether it is a method accepted in society (especially by politicians), the act is morally wrong. Any use of speech to deceive people is considered not normal, no matter how effective it might seem to be.
Your idea that homosexual acts are normal because (1) they are accepted in society and (2) they are practiced by many homosexuals, FAILS on both counts. Firstly, because being accepted in society is not what makes human acts morally acceptable, and secondly, the number of people doing the act is irrelevant to morality. Right is right even if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong.
Now, common sense tells us that the intrinsic natural purpose of the sexual act is
procreation for the propagation of the species. Therefore, any use of the sexual act which is known to fail, either naturally or by intention, to achieve that purpose is not morally normal. Since procreation (or the production of an offspring) can only happen in a sexual union between male and female, the sexual activity between two persons of the same sex cannot be a morally normal human activity.
As for homosexuality being natural, there is no evidence that homosexual pairs are more productive to future societies. Also, there is no evidence that homosexuality is the product of evolution. If you do not agree, please present your evidences.
You may write your response, but I will probably not be able to respond again until tomorrow. I got to go.
