The Supposed Abnormality of Homosexuals

Lastly, and perhaps the strongest point in favor of homosexuality as being a perfectly natural and thereby morally acceptable practice in the confines of the naturalness argument is the idea that nothing which occurs in nature is “unnatural”. Many things occur in nature that can be considered unnatural, which are better described simply as deviating from the traditional view of normal occurrences.  Henning Bech, in his book When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity states, “If nature is the principle governing cosmic order and at the same time dictates the regularities to which all things conform how can anything ‘unnatural’ arise?” (186). Andrew Wilbe also makes mentions this fact in his essay by writing “homosexuality does not break any laws of nature (if it did it could not occur).” (1). There are a multitude of occurrences within nature that, while they may be rare are not considered unethical in any sense. It isn’t common for babies to be born with extra or absent limbs, therefore it is unnatural, but that fact is arbitrary where the morality of the child is concerned.

Due to the refutations of various professionals to these arguments against the nature of homosexuality and what common sense tells us, these points cannot be entertained as valid. Nature is constantly surprising us with more and more variations on what humans see as an expected outcome. While homosexuals will likely always be the minority in America, we as a nation cannot morally or ethically condemn their choices on the issue of their abnormal behavior alone. There may be other reasons including, but not limited, to religion that one may feel justifies the claim of the immorality of homosexuals, but examples in nature cannot be one of them.