What exactly is immoral about homosexuality?

Question

Can anyone provide any details?

Answer 1

I know a lot of folks won't like this, but here goes...
We all tend to base our morals on different things. As I see it, it isn't the homosexuality that is immoral. It's the immoral acts that homosexuals tend to do. Just like heterosexuals who do immoral things.
It's the sex outside of marriage that is immoral.

Answer 2

Here is the problem a lot of us have been programed to believe that homosexuality is normal why do you think through out history every nation has been against it there is a reason homosexuality opens up a lot of other social problems. Look at it this way . Would you invite a pedophile to live with you and your young boys. It is very simple God said it is wrong two female dog,s don,t sleep together they have more sense than that but two human don,t see anything wrong with it I feel like I am living in a cesspool the government has approved this abdominal act and this country will fall because of it . We have taken real men out of the picture and put homosexuals in powerful places like our courts and schools I may not live to see it but America will never be the same because of homosexuals .God has given us signs to let us no that homosexuality is wrong and we did not listen Aids the next sign will be one that we will have to listen to when man wont do what is right our god will make it right. In America we are so worried about other country's building nuclear bombs well we have one right under our noses it called homosexuals wake up people

Answer 3

... So I've read all the answers posted (at least before this one from me) and it seems that not a single person gave a viable ethical argument against homosexuality.

Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong, most importantly its a STUDY and thus must be objective. Objectivity assures that the decision of things moral can stand by themselves, independent of cultural, ethnic, or religious creed (Don't believe me, go take an ethics class (its usually classified as a Philosophy class).

It seems that there really exists no 'logical' argument against homosexuality only cultural anthropology (which can merely 'explain' morality.

RELIGION

God's disgust with homosexuality (or delight) doesn't determine the morality of the act. According to Judeo-Christian scripture, genocide and slavery were okay if not even condoned by God, yet we can make an objective, utilitarian argument against both. As far as things that are deemed ethical, religion plays no role in its inception. Most people consider things unethical because either they can't 'will' it as a universal law (accept the reciprocation of such act, the whole 'Golden Rule' aspect), or they understand that such an act dramatically decreases the amount of human happiness (both of s/he receiving the action, and those affected by the act). Example: I believe murder to be wrong because I wouldn't want to be murdered, and I understand that murders cause more unhappiness than happiness.

TRADITION

Tradition likewise is faulty in determining morality. Based upon tradition I can argue racism, sexism, facism... shoot almost anything to be ethical. Tradition (culturally shaped) is obviously a bias, not a source of objectivity. In our Western culture tradition states that marriage is between one woman and one man, and to many indigenous cultures it is between one man and many women. To each group the other is immoral for such.

NATURE

"It's not natural!" - Actually it is. That which is natural occurs without any course of action, pressure, coersion, etc. This is like saying having six fingers isn't natural. Of course it's natural.
"It's not normal!" - Yes, it's not normal. It doesn't occur nearly as much as heterosexuality. HAVING SIX FINGERS doesn't occur nearly as much as a person with 5 digits, does this make it wrong?
... my all time favorite: "If a large majority of humans were gay, then the human race would cease to exist... hence its wrong" - Very correct statement.... but the majority of humans AREN'T gay, and hence we are still increasing exponentially. This I like to call the "Opening Pandora's Box Argument". Many people use this as a last chance argument against many things. Essentially it extrapolates to an impossible extent. It goes like this:

If something extremely improbable (everyone becoming gay), but none-the-less possible happens, then some horrible, catastrophic thing (end of the human race) will occur based upon such extremely improbable thing (everyone becoming gay).

I hope the red herring fallacy of this is self-evident.

Answer 4

Father-son Relationships and Male Sexual Development

Investigation into parent-child relations of homosexual and heterosexual men is heavily documented in research literature, and a link between the absence of sufficient bonding with same-sex parent or role models and the development of adult male homosexuality has been proposed. Numerous studies have found that adult homosexual males tend to report having had less loving and more rejecting fathers than their heterosexual peers .
Bieber (1976) by saying:

We have repeatedly stated and written that a boy whose father is warmly related and constructive will not become homosexual; however, one must not get trapped by the fallacy of the converse, that is, a hostile, destructive father always produces a homosexual son

Answer 5

How in the hell can how GOD made you be immoral? No it is not immoral, dispite what all these bible thumpers will get on here and try to tell you, their only main problem is that they don't believe that things can change and in doing research.

Answer 6

Homosexuality is not immoral. It it were, people and animals would not be born with the inclination. This started out in early days when the church wanted to control the people. Homosexual sex does not produce children. At a time when increasing the population was important, it stands to reason that the people making the rules would be against homosexuality and masturbation. Neither produces children, hence reduces their control over the population.

Answer 7

The very act of homosexuality goes against, at least, the very laws of nature. Opposite sexes were created for a reason. Not only to be attracted to one another, but to pro-create.

Homosexuals do not reproduce, they recruit. If homosexuality were the norm in the human species, mankind would definitely die off, unless reproduction was achieved through artificial means. And that itself is unnatural.

Morally, it is against the words of God. God is the creator of mankind, and like it or not, He has the authority to dictate what is morally right and wrong. And according to His word, He says homosexuality is wrong, and should not be practiced. Those who believe in God believe His words, and obey those words.

The argument that homosexuality is genetic is false. If your eyes are green, that is genetic. If you have brown hair, that is genetic. Behavior is a learned thing, it has nothing to do with genetic code. I have personally seen homosexuals abandon the life, marry a person of opposite gender and reject the homosexual lifestyle, regretting ever being in that kind of life. If it were genetic, that action would be like cutting off your legs because you didn't like your height. It's behavioral, and behavior can be changed. And should.

Answer 8

There is nothing immoral about loving another human being.

Answer 9

Nothing, it's two consenting adults having a mutually beneficial relationship, if only for a few minuites.

The only "wrong" is society's fear of anything that doesn't march to it's beat.

Answer 10

Everything!Their was no Adam and Adam in the Garden of Eden in the beginning from what i was taught in church.