If you think being gay goes against nature...?

Question

what about other animals in nature engaging in homosexual behavior? And if you're really so concerned with what's "natural", why promote abstinence?

Copraphagy fulfills a specific need such as acquiring symbiotic microbes for digestion or to further digest materials still containing nutritional value. If necessary to our bodies we would engage in the behavior also.

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Answer 1

the other animals are being unnatural as well.

it's either a choice, or it's a disease.

Answer 2

Technically speaking, yes. But a lot of what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is "unnatural." The pill is "unnatural" but I'm on it.

I'm all for "natural" but it is overrated sometimes.

Abstinence is a great example. It may be "natural" from an animalistic perspective, to have sex whenever the mood strikes, but that kind of behaviour is how AIDS & other STDs spread. So it is better to abstain, at least to some degree. Maybe waiting till your wedding night is a bit extreme. It's a valid choice many make, but not for everyone.

Answer 3

That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard. I seen dogs eating their own feces - so if you want mimic animals, knock yourself out.

I would like to point out - we are humans and in case you did not catch that - we are separate from the animal species, we walk upright, we talk, we engineer, we learn complex equations - accomplishing things no other species on this planet can do.

Animals can do amazing things but not the the scale of mankind. However if you want to act like an animal (by your own admission), far be it from me to force you or anyone else to do otherwise - or at least up until you try to force me to accept it or you thrust this sick mental illness on my children - THEN - we will have problems.

Answer 4

It is true, that animals do engage in this behavior. Natural Selection will eliminate them from their community, for they will not be able to reproduce and the weak genes will be obsolete over time.
In certain other countries, dung is considered a delicacy. Whatever you feel you want to do is your own business. I say it is natural, its natures way of getting rid of the undesirable.

Answer 5

Wow. I better put a positive answer in here amongst all these close-minded answers. They are so quick to point out the bible verse about "man not laying with another man" but they ignore the one a few pages over that says "a parent should stone his disobedient child in the street."

Homosexuality is natural, beautiful and is about love and only love. Why would so many people condemn one another just for practicing love?

Oh and PS: other animals DO engage in homosexual activity people.

Answer 6

I think it goes against nature but I don't spend my time degrading that lifestyle. I don't understand why christians all hop on that bandwagon. Leave it in God's hand's and use the tools He gave us, like prayer if you think a person is living in sin, pray for him. It just seems as if some christians get enjoyment out of pouncing on that issue, along with degrading the person. We are all God's children, and you arent going to change anyone by instilling the fear of the Lord in them, if they don't know the fear of the Lord from personal experience. I just don't get that form of christianity, too old school for me.

Answer 7

I think a lot of people are confusing "natural" with "normal". They are not the same. Homosexuality is natural but not normal. It's natural because they are born that way, but it's not normal because most people are NOT born that way. In any case, natural and normal designations have nothing to do with whether you think it's wrong. It's not normal but neither is it wrong.

Answer 8

Cite the text: "Biological Exuberance" by Bruce Bagemihl. Homosexuality is indeed a universal phenomenon. As for the answer above equating homosexuality with coprophagy: human coprophagy would entail deleterious effects under most circumstances, but homosexuality necessarily entails no deleterious effects. On the other hand, under the right circumstances (prolonged space travel, for example) coprophagy would indeed be a desirable behavior.

Answer 9

It's interesting how many people fail to realize that there are documented cases of homosexuality in non-dominance scenarios, in every single social mammamlian species, including:

Primates (The Bonobo monkeys use it as a primary social bonding ritual)
Felines (Especially among lions)
Canines (Wolves and dogs)
Cetaceans (Dolphins especially, less common amongst the larger cetaceans)

Further, such behaviors are found amongst many bird species. The San Fancisco zoo currently as a monogamously mated pair of male emperor penguins who, when provided an abandoned egg, engaged in mutual care behaviors where neither played a wholely male or wholely female role, the duties were shared.

Of course, these people who don't realize this don't want to do the research because it'd blast huge holes in their "But it isn't natural!" battle cry.

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LOL! "We're not animals!" Wow... is that the best some of these people can do?

Let's see... Homo sapiens sapiens...

Kingdom: Animalia (multicellular, motive sometime in life, responsive to environment, consume other organisms for sustinance)
Phylym: Chordata (has notocord, dorsal nerve cord)
Class: Mammalia (warm blood, hair, live birth)
Order: Primate (five fingers, unspecialized body plan, opposing thumb, binocular vision)
Family: Hominidae (capacity for basic social structures, theory of mind)
Genus: Homo
Species: sapiens
Subspecies: sapiens

*glances up at that kingdom again...* Right. Not animals. *snickers*

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Oh, we're not animals because we have a 'soul'.

Could someone kindly show me a soul or show me how to measure it or validate it in an objective and unquestionable manner?

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Servant_of_God: Actually, homosexuality in small amounts in social-grouping animals is highly evolutionarily advantageous.

Since a homosexual male will not compete for females, and thus not have offspring of its own, its energies can be directed at other young. In this manner, if an offspring has a homosexual family member, it will have three protectors/teachers instead of just two. This boosts the offspring's chances of making it to reproductive age. And since it is related to the homosexual, it is possible it is carrying the requisite genetics for homosexuality itself.

Homosexuality is evolutionarily advantageous, in certain amounts (determined by the specifics of the species's social and breeding structures).

Answer 10

Goes against nature? You like being religious does?

LMFAO at all the "we are not animals" nuts. No wonder there's so much opposition to learning biology among Christians.

Oh, and any argument that can only be rescued by making up a "soul" is an argument you should have given up on long ago.

Answer 11

First let me tell you a little story. One day, God decided to make the known universe. He made every plant and animal that has ever been on earth. the animals that God made were male and female for one reason. to procreate by sex. God said to have sex with the opposite gender. He told man this specifically and to only have sex with your wife. we can see evidence of God's wrath for sexual immoralityin the old testament of the Bible. God killed all those who broke the second highest law that He established. look at the two cities of Soddom and Gamorah. those cities were rampant with sexual immorality and other sins. God wiped those two cities from existence. that is how angry God gets at us for even the slightest sexual immorality. as for abstinece, God also commanded us to wait till we are married to have sex and it would be that much better. who has the best sex in the world? Christian couples who practice sex in the right context. so gays, watch out, for if you do not change your ways, you will be dealt with in the most severe way.