Responding to "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong"

[Meandering Atheist -J-]

Im open to any ideas or suggestions, corrections etc.

~ Prometheus

I'm curious, have you taken a good look at the Sam Harris style of morality? The common definitions of morality I find to be rather confusing, and not on much of a good footing. The Sam Harris style (hopefully I don't butcher it too much) is to anchor morality to something observable. We can say that the moral thing to do is what causes the least amount of suffering. This way we can actually look at various practices and get an idea for how well society functions with them and see how much suffering they cause for everyone involved. The softballs are already easy; obviously murder or slavery etc. cause quite a bit of suffering and are immoral.

Now this is all me talking: Lets take this to the issue of homosexuality, namely the prevalence of homosexuals in the media. Normalizing a behaviour that is actually extremely rare in society is bound to convince some heterosexuals to embrace that lifestyle. Depending on how unhappy these people are, it could actually make the over portrayal of homosexuals an immoral practice. Not as bad as the over portrayal of violence perhaps, but still immoral.