However, your argument fails overall until you can show that human sexual orientation, not only behavior, is subject to voluntary modification.
The reason that anti-gay Christians are losing the argument daily, is that they keep trying to focus on behavior, instead of the more important issue of sexual orientation. Hence, their opinion is dismissed as largely irrelevant to the discussion.
First of all,
opposing so-called “
gay marriage” is
not anti-gay. There are numerous GLBTQ folks who oppose it as well.
Secondly, arguing on the basis of behaviour changes the debate entirely, especially in the secular realm. The best case here is that the 14 Amendment, for instance, doesn’t regulate behaviors, as Jason Lewis says *ad naseum.
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Frankly, the reason why those opposed to so-called “gay marriage” are not winning is because the First World education system and media is practically run by progressives and their arguments are Biblical instead of Constitutional.
Most people don’t seem to realize that there is no Constitutional “right” to marriage for anyone, and the exact working of the Constitution leaves family law up to the states like everything else in the Constitution.
As Jason Lewis notes: “You’ve got a better argument for doing heroin than for gay marriage regarding the Constitution” because the changes impact both the tax code and religious liberties.
Simply having your favourite gay couple waltz off into the sunset doesn’t even scratch the surface as to what this is all really about.
And that’s a big, big problem.
There are a handful of practitioners who claim to be able to re-orient a person’s sexuality. These people are so far on the fringe, that they are not taken seriously by their professional peers.
Both them and yourself (by how you conduct this part of your post) fail to realize that some people may not be entirely gay or straight. They might be bi or in some other gray area.
It’s really not that surprising to me, given the garbage in the media and what types of hormones are freely floating in our natural environment.
Gay conversion therapy works for some people and for others it doesn’t.
No one who is genuinely gay should be forced to pretend to be someone they are not, but once again, the agenda of those (who are now mostly straight) gets in the way of the person who is struggling.
Indeed, in some cases they are ostracized for being harmful to patients.
Because they don’t support an agenda. We see that a lot in environmental circles with the “global warming” nonsense.
I agree with you that animal behavior, while instructive in many ways, is rarely directly analogous to human behavior, and particularly to human sexuality. Primates are the closest, for obvious reasons. I think there are examples among geese of same gender couples, who tend to pair up for life.
That’s irrelevant and just more of that “pick and choose” from the progressive playbook.
Some animals also eat their young. Should we then make it legal for those body parts in Gosnell’s freezer to be on the menu?
Really, why stop there? There’s lots of behaviour in the animal kingdom that humans should not do.
but if you hope to convince anyone of anything, then you should probably change your focus, and come up with a new approach.
I think the best way for us to convince people is on the basis of natural law, common sense and economics.
