Committing a homosexual act is different than just 'being gay'. Just like how wanting other people's money isn't the same as stealing. Please note that I'm not arguing about the righteousness of sins, I was just pointing out a fault in your post.
With a honey in the middle there's some leeway.
Timedog said:
Fixed. Holy fucking crap.
Which is why we should ban science!
It was not my intention to attach any kind of negative feelings towards a group, hopefully my posts didn't accidentally made people think that. Everyone is basically born with biological errors, some happen to be great advancements and most not so, but that's how the gene pool works. I didn't add this statement to a previous post because I didn't want to lead the discussion: I was more curious about what people thought about homosexuality from a biological point of view. From a humanist point of view we all know how we should be thinking. I never liked any religious point of view.
The statistics alone implies that it's not an error, but rather that it has actual use and importance. Matt Ridley does some good speculation about its purpose in his book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. It's well worth reading.
What happened in Sodom and Gomorrah was promiscuity: people were fucking everything that moved, whether it were people (both straight and homosexual) or animals; they were raping each other. They wanted to rape (i.e. having sex by force) Lot's guests. Sodom and Gomorrah isn't limited to God punishing gays, it's about God punishing sinful people who do not respect neither His laws nor any laws at all; heavy promiscuity was just one of many sins people there committed and we're talking about people having casual sex with many partners - there's no distinction whether it was between two people of the same gender or two people of different gender (or was it an orgy). How was this story twisted to "God hates gays and here's a proof" is beyond me. If you're a straight guy/girl and have casual sex with many girls/guys, then you're committing the very same sin people in S&G were committing.
I also wonder about this. I can understand people who view it as a superfluous genetic difference like being left-handed, but some may view it not just as an alternate form but rather a disadvantageous difference. I've known gay people who said they would go for a "turn me straight" thing if science ever figured it out.
Where did you get that number? It's my understanding that it's something like 1% but most usually end up moving into large cities because 1% of 5 million is better community/chances of finding a partner than 1% of 50k, and then because this happens so often, large cities end up having even up to 15% or so.
I learned that number during biology when I was in high school. I remember it being fascinating as I knew no one who was gay at the time, but statistically I should've been seeing 1 out of 10 people being gay. Now I have a hard time finding those numbers, I wonder if it was correct :|
You sound like a real straight shooter.
It might have been 1 out of 10 not being "fully heterosexual" according to Kinsey studies, but then I think I remember Kinsey studies presenting a much broader spectrum statistically speaking.
Dice said:
