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by cookiecaper 5095 days ago
>Homosexuality is a socially beneficial bahaviour is as much as, people exist that are gay

"People exist that are alcoholic" "People exist that are pedophiles" "People exist that are depressed" "People exist that are kleptomaniacs" "People exist that are obese" It seems every group desperately searches for a biological genesis of their ills these days, so that they can divert culpability.

Just because certain people exist doesn't mean the behaviors that would flow from their "natural" inclinations are socially beneficial.

>No. The correct comparison is 'existing with a particular skin colour' and 'existing with a certain sexual orientation'. One does not take more of a conscious effort than the other.

In the context of whether the government should promote gay coupling, one takes far more effort. People are unchangeably and constantly a certain race and discrimination on racial basis occurs regardless of that person's actions. If we accept the narrative that a person is unchangeably and constantly gay from birth to death (which I don't), just as a person is unchangeably and constantly ethnic from birth to death, the gay person still has the option to NOT engage in homosexual action. A black person does not have the option to not engage in blackness.

Publicly homosexual couples seeking marriage first must become a couple, then make their coupling public, and then ask the government to give them special privileges. You assert that this takes an identical level of effort as being black or white?