Homosexuality

"Homosexuality is completely alright, natural, and not wrong, evil, demonic, a mental disorder, a choice, and not something you can change." Because making a claim automatically makes that claim true. Right. "Homosexuality is not a choice, no one would make the the choice to risk being discriminated, tortured, killed, locked up, fined, etc." So you're saying that humans are always rational and they never do harmful stuff? Why do some people in certain Islamic countries commit adultery when they know they'll be stoned for it? Why do people in the United States do illegal drugs when (obviously) such drugs are illegal to possess and/or use and they could go to jail for it? There is a difference between having a desire to do something and not having a choice about said thing. "A gay gene has been discovered already." Oh? Please provide evidence for this claim. But like I said before, having a desire to do something doesn't mean that you have to do something. There is a little something called self-restraint and self-discipline. If we were to follow your logic, meth addicts should be left alone. Psychopaths with ultra-violent minds should be allowed to kill as they please. Desire is no excuse for breaking the law, and it is no excuse for homosexuality. "It (gay marriage) certainly won't open up a gateway to men marrying children or anything." I agree; the gateway was opened up long before gay marriage came around. But you have to close the (figurative) gateway at some point, or else society will degrade to its worst possible state. And it should be closed right here and now, before homosexual marriage becomes widely accepted in the United States. So far, I have provided some rebuttals, but I have done nothing to prove that homosexuality is wrong. First of all, Christianity is opposed to homosexuality, as is Judaism and presumably Islam. But as you are an atheist, I'll need to provide some secular reasons. Homosexuality prevents breeding. There is no species (that I am aware of) which practices population control. Even locusts and krill don't do much (if anything) to handle their outrageously high populations. Therefore, any and all cases of homosexuality are contrary to nature, just like a third arm in a human or a chicken is. Besides having no apparent purpose (naturally occurring sterility sterility could handle population control much better without introducing a whole village to the sexually transmitted diseases perpetrated through homosexual activity), homosexuality also has the potential for devastating a nation. According to this link (Liberal bias notwithstanding), the actual number of gay men in the United States is approximately 5% of the male population. http://www.nytimes.com... It's reasonable to assume that the percentage of Lesbians is around the same. Ultimately, this would mean that AT LEAST 5% of the United States wouldn't breed if all LGBT people "came out of the closet" (not counting the people who aren't gay who don't have kids). This is important because the U.S. population growth is currently at unsustainable levels. http://www.lifenews.com... To keep the American population from declining, everyone able adult should have kids, which will raise the population to sustainable levels. I plan on discussing some more of the dangers of homosexuality in the next round, provided that my opponent doesn't forfeit.