Why Do Gays Compare Homosexuality to Being Left Handed?

Question

In the muslim world, there are no left handed people. Even if someone was born with the tendency to be left handed, they modify their behavior to learn to use their right hand for everyday living.

Are gays trying to prove that behavior can be modified to fit in to what society deems as normal?

Sounds like this is a strange argument to further your cause.

Interesting - Even gay people believe that it's possible to modify one's behavor and act according to what society determines as normal.

Answer 1

What we're trying to say is that hundreds of years ago, people who were left-handed were seen as abnormal, or in league with the devil (left hand of God, I think I'm using that right), and that as time went on, people became wiser, and nowadays, left-handed people are not as big a deal anymore.
I firmly believe that one day it won't be such a big deal who's gay or straight anymore. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but maybe the next.

Answer 2

Yet another argument against converting to Islam.

Sure, one's outward behavior can be modified to meet the demands imposed by society, but typically at a great price, we've learned, and unnecessary.

I thought the handed-ness thing was just a convention among nomadic tribes who used a common stewpot, using only the right hand to dip into the pot and reserving the left hand for wiping one's butt. That would be like the US continuing to impose daylight savings time long after it advanced from an agrarian economy. No, wait, it does. Never mind.

Answer 3

The argument was made outside the Muslim world, where left-handedness has finally come to be seen as normal and natural--and neutral--for about ten percent of the population.

I bet those left-handed Muslims--and they *are* left-handed, they have just repressed it--have terrible handwriting and get in accidents involving kitchen knives a lot. That's what happened to my mom's boyfriend. Until the Sixties, Catholic schools discouraged left-handedness, too.

The idea behind the comparison is that both are normal, natural, neutral traits that can't be helped, and that the people who have them are happiest and healthiest when allowed to accommodate what nature programmed into them.

Answer 4

There are also straight people who get heavily intoxicated and sleep with morbidly obese women. Just because a person is capable of doing something he normally finds disagreeable doesn't mean that's how he should be forced to live his life.

Let's also not forget, sex is supposed to be a pleasurable experience - writing is a chore. Learning how to do a chore differently is not the same thing as being told the only "acceptable" way of having sex is to have it with a gender you don't feel any physical attraction twards.

Answer 5

Thank goodness I don't follow Islam or seek to be a priest in RC Church, then.

Of course a gay man can get married (to a woman) and have children - but why should he other than to fit in with a blinkered society's expectations? Is he any less gay?

I was forced to learn to write with my right hand as a child but I would revert to my left-handed type, and they gave up as soon as they realised it was not in me to be right-handed.

I was born that way.

Answer 6

No. not at all is someone saying that we're trying to prove that behavior can be modified. At least not ALL behavior. Nor should it be. And please don't speak for me on the topic of behavior modification.

Answer 7

Modifying someone to be right handed doesn't change the fact that they were born left handed. It just forces them to comply.

Answer 8

Why are you hanging out here? What are you possibly getting from this?

Answer 9

You are trying too hard