| Back up. What I am saying is that the written record says that same-sex unions have been around for a long time. I am telling you that, according to the written record, the approximate percentages of gay and lesbians has remained pretty much constant over time. According to the written record, such unions were 'normal' in civilizations as disparate as the First Nations peoples of North America and the Asian culture of the Japanese.
I am telling you that homosexuality is no more a sin than left-handedness. It just is.
Whether you wish to consider it a sin, of course, is your prerogative. It's a ridiculous and anachronistic approach, but still your prerogative!
However, that isn't the issue at hand. You cannot outlaw same gender sexual unions. It's simply not possible. You can shove it in the closet, you can (if you stretch your morals in the way that some of the evangelists do) murder these people, you can do whatever you wish........but you cannot stamp out homosexuality. Nor will murder solve the problem; the same number of homosexuals/lesbians will come in each generation, will ye, nill ye.
Nor can you equate homosexuality with murder. Murder, rapine, and mayhem are aberrations which wax and wane with the tolerance of the civilization involved......and the percentages of offenders differ from culture to culture.
That simply is not so with homosexuality and lesbianism. |