Homosexuality is unnatural
Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having lgbtq+ relations. In the U.S., 1% to 2.2% of women and men, respectively, identify as lgbtq+. Despite these numbers, many people still consider homosexual action to be an anomalous choice. However, biologists have documented homosexual behavior in more than 450 species, arguing that same-sex behavior is not an unnatural choice, and may in fact perform a vital role within populations.
In a 2019 issue of Science magazine, geneticist Andrea Ganna at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues, described the largest survey to rendezvous for genes related with same-sex deed. By analyzing the DNA of nearly half a million people from the U.S. and the U.K., they concluded that genes account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex behavior.
Numerous studies have established that sex is not just male or female. Rather, it is a continuum that emerges from a person’s genetic makeup. Nonetheless, misconceptions persist that same-sex attraction is a choice that warrants condemnation or conversion, and leads to discrimination and persecution.
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'Homosexuality Isn't Natural or Healthy'
June 7, 2007 — -- President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., wrote a paper in 1991 that purported to make the medical argument that homosexuality is unnatural and unhealthy. Doctors who reviewed the paper derided it as prioritizing political ideology over science, and Democratic aides on Capitol Hill say the paper will make his confirmation hearings problematic, if not downright bruising.
Holsinger, 68, presented "The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality" in January 1991 to a United Methodist Church's committee to study homosexuality. (Read the paper here.) The church was then considering changing its view that homosexuality violates Christian instruction, though it ultimately did not do so. Relying on footnotes from mainstream medical publications, Holsinger argued that homosexuality isn't spontaneous or healthy.
"A confirmation fight is exactly what the administration does not need," said David Gergen, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, who predicted the paper would cause a "minor storm" among Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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Imagine an activity that takes place between consenting adults, doesn't hurt anyone and results in a great deal of pleasure for the people involved. Also imagine this action is an road of meaning and communication in the people's lives, which is usually something that is celebrated.
But when this action involves two men or two women, some might not only condemn it but call it a "moral abomination," says Dr. John Corvino.
Corvino has traveled the country for more than 15 years speaking on gay rights. He uses humor as he dismantles shared arguments against lgbtq+ conduct, including those based on innateness, harm and religion.
"Homosexual relationships make some people happy," Corvino emphasized. "And I don't just imply they are pleasurable, but they can be an essential avenue of m
Homosexuality
Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have recognized that one of the main person sins involved in God’s destruction of Sodom was its people’s homosexual deed. But today, certain lgbtq+ activists promote the thought that the sin of Sodom was merely a lack of hospitality. Although inhospitality is a sin, it is clearly the homosexual behavior of the Sodomites that is singled out for special criticism in the account of their city’s destruction. We must look to Scripture’s own interpretation of the sin of Sodom.
Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah “acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust.” Ezekiel says that Sodom committed “abominable things” (Ezek. 16:50), which could relate to to homosexual and heterosexual acts of sin. Lot even offered his two virgin daughters in place of his guests, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferring homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen. 19:8–9). But the Sodom incident is not the only period the Old Testament deals with homosexuality. An explicit condemnation is found in the book of Leviticus: “You shall not lounge with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. . . . If a man lies with a male as with a woman,