Debate: Is homosexuality wrong?
Side: For

I really don’t understand this debate at all. It’s not just that I don’t agree with the arguments opposing homosexuality, I literally do not understand how a lot of them work as arguments.  “It’s unnatural!”1. If it is unnatural, why do so many species show homosexual behaviour? 2. Even if no other species had homosexuality, ours definitely does, so it is still a part of nature.3. Even if it were somehow unnatural, why is something being unnatural bad? Cars are unnatural, so are mirrors and aluminium and McDonalds, that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. “I don’t like a man looking at me like that!”1. What that means is “I don’t want to be perceived as a sexual object by someone I am not sexually attracted to”. Why does that have anything to do with the gender of the person? Why is a man allowed to look at a woman sexually despite what she may feel about that man, while a man can’t look at a man like that? Is it just that men deserve extra protection? Or does it being outside your orientation make a magical distinction somehow? But if that were the case, why is a straight woman allowed to look at a man who is gay sexually despite being outside his orientation? 2. I don’t give a damn what you do or don’t want, because it turns out you are not the king of anything. I don’t want people to not give me money. That does not make it morally wrong for people to not give me money because my whims and yours are not the ultimate arbiters of morality. “It’s just gross!”1. You finding it gross does not make it objectively gross. I find straight sex gross, that doesn’t make it morally wrong on an objective level. 2. Even if it is objectively gross, that still wouldn’t make it morally or fundamentally wrong.“Sex is for procreation”1. According to whom? 2. Like with any activity, sex provides multiple benefits, whether that be pleasure, thrill, exercise, human contact, whatever. Why is procreation somehow the only valid reason to have sex? 3. Even if that were true, that wouldn’t mean it is morally wrong to have sex for something other than “its purpose”. 4. If it were morally wrong to have sex for any reason other than procreation, then that would mean any sex, gay or straight, that does not specifically aim to create a baby is morally wrong, and the infertile would be banned from ever having sex at all. “But AIDS!”1. Affects straight people as well as gay people 2. Even if gay people are more likely to get aids, every couple, gay or straight, should use the same precautions of safe-sex practices in order to protect themselves.3. AIDS is not the arbiter of morality. That’s like saying being in hospital is immoral because people in hospital are more likely to catch MRSA. “It’s a choice”1. No its not, many are born gay. 2. Even if sexuality can change, that doesn’t make it a choice. Age changes, you don’t choose your age. 3. Even if it was a choice, so fucking what? My shirt colour is a choice, that doesn’t make it morally wrong. “Corrupt the children!”1. You cannot be talked into being gay. 2. Even if you could, an argument can’t be “gay is bad because it causes children to be gay, which we have already established is bad”. That is circular logic. “Higher risk of suicide”1. Only because of the negative reaction gay people often get from their family and friends. Homosexuality doesn’t cause suicide, saying homosexuality is wrong does cause suicide. 2. Being an army veteran also has a higher risk of suicide. This does not make being an army veteran morally wrong. “Against the bible”1. And if I was a Christian that would matter to me.2. Christians are divided over the interpretation of these passages. 3. Christianity specifically rejects the set of rules of the old testament that the passages dealing with homosexuality appears in, relying instead on guidelines established by Christ who said nothing at all about homosexuality. Have I missed anything here?