Homosexuals should be eliminated from the world

Since he has opened with his arguments, I'll present some light. My opponent contends that homosexuals should be eliminated from the world. His points are as stated. I will rebut each and every point:- 1. The argument that Pastor Martin Ssempa argues, that the reason we should eliminate homosexuals is because they have a tendency to commit coprophilia is clearly flawed in itself. Many hetrosexual people commit coprophilia as well, and if you would like to eliminate homosexuals because some members of the homosexual community commit this act, then by that logic, we should eliminate the entire human race because some of us have a fetish for faeces. 2. He contends that homosexuality is a crime against the bible, and for this reason, homosexuals should be eliminated from the world. I would like to first start that in America, we have an ideology of seperation between church and state and for this reason, we have no right to impose our beliefs on others. The basis of the banning of homosexuality by religious officials are in the text as follows: 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22 KJV) 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. " (Leviticus 20:13 KJV) I would like to give a ridiculous set of things banned by the bible a) Round haircuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads "You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. " b)The eating, touching and mass processing of swine. Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads "You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. " c) The Retrieval method during Sex. It's Genesis 38:9-10: "Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also. " d) Divorce. Mark 10:11-12, "And He said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery. '" e) Bastards and their descendants are not allowed to join a Church. Deuteronomy 23:2 reads, "No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord. " f) Eating shellfish. "But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you. " Leviticus 11 bans a TON of animals from being eaten (it's THE basis for Kosher law); beyond shellfish and pig, it also says you can't eat camel, rock badger, rabbit, eagle, vulture, buzzard, falcon, raven, crow, ostrich, owl, seagull, hawk, pelican, stork, heron, bat, winged insects that walk on four legs unless they have joints to jump with like grasshoppers (? ), bear, mole, mouse, lizard, gecko, crocodile, chameleon and snail. g) Your wife defending your life in a fight by grabbing your attacker's genitals. "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity. " There are countless more odd verses in the Bible. If we were to be a society that follows the law of the Bible literally, we would be a Christian version of the Taliban. And anyway, not everyone in the world is a Christian, so to eliminate all homosexuals in the world because of what your religion dictates, then that would be selfish and it would make no sense. 3. There is no sufficient proof that homosexuality is the source of aids. Most professionals agree that AIDS originated in Africa in primates and was later transferred to humans. To believe that AIDS originated due to homosexuality is a myth and is false. Furthermore, even if my opponent were right, there is already AIDS. AIDS has already become a viral disease among heterosexual and/or homosexual societies in the world and there is absolutely no reason to eliminate homosexuals even if they were to cause this disease. That is the equivalent of eliminating all monkeys because HIV originated from them (scientific view). And to eliminate them because they carry the disease would also be inhumane. That would be like eliminating all heterosexuals because they carry the disease. In conclusion, there's no compelling reason to eliminate homosexuals from the world. They are simply not dangerous, and they are as human as you or me. Vote Pro Sources: Sharp, PM; Hahn, BH (2011 Sep). "Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic". Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 1 (1): a006841. doi:10.1101/cshperspect. a006841. PMC 3234451. PMID 22229120.