Debate: Is homosexual behavior harmful to society?
Side: Disagree

If a parent objects to a school teaching pro-homosexuality and pulls his child out of school and because of it is ridiculed and/or jailedCan you please give me an example of when and where this has happened? Thanks.is he harmed?If such a thing has ever happened, then yes.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If a self-employed business owner with strong religious convictions refuses to offer his services to homosexuals and he is sued and goes bankrupt, is he harmed? Examples of such businesses where a person should be free to refuse services could be things like wedding photographers, masseuses, tutoring, etc.No one has gone bankrupt from this. Since you mentioned photography, are you referring to this case? I agree that forcing the photographer to take the pictures, or suing them for not doing so is completely abhorrent. Given that the services are necessary and cannot be facilitated at a similar cost elsewhere, I don't think that gov't intervention should take place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If a Catholic orphanage is forced to shut down because it is against its religious moral code to turn children over to homosexual couples, is someone hurt?Again, yes, if it has ever happened. I'm not sure if you're asking loaded questions on purpose, or you actually believe that this has occurred. I'm going with the latter.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If a public school teacher voices his disapproval of homosexuality on Facebook on his own time, away from work, in his own home, on his own computer and is fired from his teaching position, is he harmed?Yes, and this has happened. Personally, I think that whether or not this should happen depends on the context. Jerry Buell has clearly not committed hate speech in his comments, but it appears that where he teaches is a secular and publicly owned school. His insistence on shoehorning religion into the classroom is unprofessional, but he shouldn't be fired for it. The Knox case is a little different, like Buell, she is not guilty of hate speech. There is no evidence as to whether or not she leaves her religious beliefs at the door, but I think that punishing her is outrageous.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If a group of pro-homosexual activists (Act-UP) disrupt the worship service of a Christian congregation by throwing condoms at the pastor, is the congregation harmed?The congregation is unduly disrupted. However, promotion of homosexuality is not part of Act-UP's agenda~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If Christians are forced into silence because of fear of legal, social, and financial retribution, are they harmed?This is vague, can you clarify what they're silenced from saying, and which Christians in particular?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When morally conservative people who disapprove of homosexuality are labeled as "moral dinosaurs," "bigots," "hate mongers," "right wing fanatics," "preachers of hatred," "intolerant," are they harmed?Don't forget "rethuglican" and "republiKKKan". I agree.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Nothing on the list above has anything to do with whether or not "homosexual behavior" is harmful. It sounds more like a rant about how a "pro-homosexual agenda" does bad things.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Add to this the fact that the vast majority of aids victims are homosexuals. Aside from countries like Africa, this is the case. This disease has spread to the heterosexual community, causing direct harm to others. We spend billions of dollars a year treating aids patients, so there is also financial harm. So, what do you think? I think the facts speak for themselves.Well... At least this is relevant to the topic. aids transmission is not solely the result of gay sex, and gay sex does not always lead to aids transmission. This is more of an argument that irresponsible deeds (namely the kinky ones) lead to aids transmission.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~P.S.I'll probably catch a lot of flack for this, but I don't care. I'm not here to earn points. I'm here to educate people. Once again, this is not about whether homosexuality is right or wrong. Morals have nothing to do with this question. So whether or not you support homosexual behavior, you have to admit that it's harmful to them, as well as society.It seems like you're blowing off some steam, because you aren't able to talk about this offline.