Homosexual Marriage
About the background and arguments used in the homosexual marriage debate. Looks upon the aspects of morality and philosophy used regularly in the homosexual marriage debate.
It is fundamental in everything we, as human beings, do to have a clear understanding of what we are talking about and acting upon. Thus it is advisable for this prelude to detail information about the causes of homosexuality before the matters of the debate surrounding gay marriage are covered.
We know that it’s not a single genetic formation that causes homosexuality, just because it plain doesn’t exist. Evidence that is incredibly conclusive shows that homosexual behaviour patterns evolve almost immediately after conception and there is pretty solid proof that it is not the post conception natural influences that are factors in homosexuality, but it’s the chemical and genetic processes that occur in the womb that cause homosexuality. It’s a mixture of chemical and genetic balances. The heterosexual child during zygotism will follow directly the set genetic and naturally selected formations that cause the reproduction of the heterosexual tendencies of the parents. In gay children the natural selection of balances is either strayed from or is naturally selected to be different which is shown through the older brother homosexuality rates. The first child is about 8% chance of homosexuality and the third is about 12.4%.
The figures vary from study to study, but the correlations are congruent throughout. Not only should we have knowledge of science, but of historical and social details of homosexuality.
Alan Turing, born 23rd June, 1912, was an English mathematician and cryptographer. He became a member of the famous Bletchley Park Cipher team. In his time as Bletchley Park he and Donald Bailey invented the colossus computer, a device capable of hurrying the process of enigma deciphering to within the time space that the Nazi forces changed the decryption. This breakthrough gave the allied forces the upper hand and eventually helped lead to victory over the anti-Semitic regime of the Nazis. His work saved millions of lives, of Jews, soldiers and everyone else that fell under the harsh glare of Nazi supremacy. In 1954, nine years after the end of world war two Alan Turing committed suicide. He took cyanide as a result of both social and court abuse, he was convicted in 1952 of Gross Indecency and forced to take a series of estrogen injections.
Homosexuals over the years have contributed huge amounts to society; Alan Turing is just one example of the great men and women that served their people dutifully.
Morally many tend to believe that things are not immoral unless they cause damage to someone or something else that is not balanced out by positive things to other people. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s a line many draw between the disgusting and the immoral. It is true that many heterosexuals find the image of same sex couples becoming intimate a repulsive image, this is a simple psychological reflex. It is no deeper in moral terms then one would steer clear of dog poo on the pavement or find the image of a pool of vomit disgusting. Dogs producing faeces and people vomiting are disgusting, but we draw the line in saying they are not immoral. If that logic and morality is applied universally we would generally find homosexuality disgusting, but not immoral. However morality is objective, otherwise it’s rather pointless, but in legal terms there has to be some logic behind the law further then simple morality to prevent abuse of the justice system.
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Post CommentSSM
On January 12, 2009 at 8:13 am
Take the plunge keep the banner flying
Candlelight vigil continue fighting
Our civil liberties gaining freedom
Declare to my partner bond of union
Waiting for justice a dream of ours
Unrest, social change shattered and charged
Love, devotion and responsibility
Peacefully protest the end of history
Denise Kawaii
On January 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
This is a great article on a topic that (at least in my circle) has been stifled since the election.
Rana Sinha
On January 19, 2009 at 1:48 am
Very brave. Great article. Stumbled and dugg it.
“However morality is objective, ..” That’s a very slippery slope. Is morality really objective?
Keep up the good work! Let freedom ring!
Phoenixritu
On January 31, 2009 at 2:29 am
Great article on a subject most people sweep under the carpet
jacko
On February 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Long article with good points. Are you gay?
MichaelJoeKing
On February 9, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Thank you to all of you, and in response to Jacko the answer is partly a yes. Bisexual.
Tom Beasley
On February 15, 2009 at 1:01 pm
This article is both informative and engaging. You present both sides of the argument and prevent your personal feelings from clouding your judgement. Brilliant!
postpunkpixie
On February 15, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Great article. You manage to detach yourself from what is usually a very emotive issue and I really respect that. Frankly, most of the arguments against it disgust me, I thought the pope’s recent comments were appalling but that’s just me.
Maria Elle
On February 16, 2009 at 7:54 am
“The main statement against homosexual marriages is that heterosexual marriages are of benefit to the state through the potential to procreation and thus it is legitimate to support strictly heterosexual marriages.”
No, it doesn’t. There is no “main” argument – each person has their own reasons, all legitamate, for not supporting gay marriage. I’m quite suprised at your “homosexuals give a huge amount to society” line – no more than heterosexuals. As you’re gay yourself I would have thought that you’d understand that sexual orientation has no bearing on acheiving a science prize, devoloping a medicine etc. All in all your argument is quite poorly constructed and you seem to focus more on individual acheivments from gays than what you’re actually meant to talk about.
And you’re wrong. State benefit has always been a huge factor. For example by ending segregation they kept a huge number of people happy leading to less riots, an entire sector of people earning more money and contributing to the economy, and improved the status of America in the eyes of the world. You may remember that many African countries boycotted the Montreal Olympics because of how America treated it’s citizens.
Another fundamental flaw in your argument, one that undoes nearly all of it, is the reasoning that homosexuals are somehow unequal to straights. Every citizen has the right to marry someone unrelated to him or her, as long as they are of the opposite gender and over the legal age. Sexual orientation is not taken into account. Homosexuals still have this right. In our debate you kept trying to say that that meant that women were unequal to men etc. but then that is every member of that sex that is unequal, not any particular injustice to homosexuals. So your entire argument is a fallacy. See ya.
Majic
On February 17, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Have you ever seen a gay dog? Or a gay cat, donkey, bull, chicken, etc…
Maybe the human being is much too advanced to be following the law of nature, or perhaps it is too uncivilized that you can’t even level it with animals.
Brenda Nelson
On February 20, 2009 at 10:03 pm
to Magic #10 YES there are gay animals of other species.
I totally support gay marriage, even though I am married and not gay. Why not? I havent seen one argument that holds any truth to it.
I found this on the Triond Newsletter – stumbled it too!
SmilesAllAround
On February 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I do not agree with gay marriage whatsoever.