Homosexuality: Reject it? Get Ready to be Branded!

I pondered for a while on how I wanted to respond to your entry, and bear in mind, that what I'm typing is my opinion, based on my 37 years of residing here. I was brought up to believe that love is the ultimate truth. I understand where you mention pedophilia/beastiality as being against society, and I agree 100%. However, if 2 consenting adults claim to love 1 another, and I've seen this in my own dysfunctional family, and there love is not hurting anyone else, then who am I to say that they're wrong. I do think society is crumbling, but I think that there are far more pressing matters, than 2 people wanting to get married and share benefits. Again, this is just how I see things, and I respect that others will see this differently.

Good Point Kevin.

The reality these days however is that there are many homosexual people FORCING an acceptance of their way of life. While I wouldn't condone violence directed at people simply because of their sexual orientation, I find it pretty unsettling that adjectives such a "bigoted", "Xenophobic", "homophobic" etc are routinely employed to denigrate people who, having heard the familiar platitudes coming from the homosexual lobby, refuse to be swayed into condoning or accepting that way of life.

Tolerating differences in opinion should be a two way street. It simply means that you yield the other party a right to their own opinions. That, I have found, rarely obtains when homosexual people and their supporters choose to read all things negative into the ideological differences inherent in the other side of the discursive divide.

I can't believe this. How could you compare homosexuality to bestiality or pedophilia? Your argument places gay sex in the related category of rape If a man forces himself onto another man in an act of homosexuality, it is NOT condoned just as it isn't condoned if a pedophile forces himself/herself onto a child. A pedophile may take advantage of a child's immature and weak mind. You are trying to compare the vulnerability of a child to what? Who is the prey and who is the predator in a gay relationship? The two are very much different.

While you say that many of us "claim" to not choose to be gay, can you imagine yourself as a straight man, successfully attempting to live a gay life? Please, don't feel the need to reinstate the reality that there is a large audience that will never understand/condone/accept us when most of us have suffered that audience in our own families and surroundings. We know it better than anyone.

Derrick:

While homosexuality is different from bestiality or pedophilia, it still represents, on a macro/global scale, a sexual preference or orientation that is frowned upon. Many people the world over have heard the 'talking points' of the homosexual lobby and have remained unconvinced about the propriety of it all. Many of the people who disapprove of homosexuality may not actively pursue a hate-filled agenda towards homosexuals; indeed many of such people are quite tolerant and passive. They just do not want the constant harassment and browbeating of radical homosexuals FORCING/PLEADING an acceptance of their alternate lifestyle. That is the crux of this little write-up.

It is important to realize, as I have written, that the human mind is infinitely capable of rationalization. Some societies today may be more accepting of homosexuals than they were a hundred years ago--nevertheless there are people, even in such societies, who still remain unconvinced about the propriety of homosexuality. This is notwithstanding the fact that there may be legislation in the books specifying the acceptance of people with a homosexual orientation.

In like manner, it is not impossible to imagine that as time goes on, and the boundaries of moral, ethical and cultural norms continue to wear thin, that a time will come when the bestiality and pedophile lobby may begin to gain some acceptance. This certainly does not mean that bestiality or pedophilia is being likened to homosexuality--it just reflects the reality of the evolving standards of human behavior AND cultural or moral norms.

Your reaction however is not baffling. If you are a homosexual, or you are an advocate for homosexual rights, I can understand the need to seek to foster a warmer understanding or tolerance of homosexuals. That is understandable. I would only take exception, if after making pro-homosexuality talking points, you do not accord people the right to politely disagree or even outrightly condemn all that you've highlighted. People have the right to disapprove, so long as they do not physically injure or unfairly target people of such sexual orientation. And if I might add, it would be unfair to malign, ridicule or denigrate people, who after having heard the usual talking points of the homosexual lobby, still remain deeply convinced that it is inappropriate or even offensive.