RE: Being gay is a fetish.
April 21, 2015 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 12:57 pm by John V.)
(April 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If you support equality for gays, that is not the way the argument works. Religious bigotry has been the social norm, heterosexuals are not the ones who are the minorities who have had a history of gays denying them service. This is about human rights. Either you are for equal protection under the law or you are justifying treating others as second class citizens.
You haven't established that gays constitute a class of citizens for this purpose.
Show me the scientific evidence proving that people are born gay, and I'll agree that they deserve the same protections as racial minorities.
Until then, it's a behavior or lifestyle. I support the rights of people to freely associate. Free association implies exclusion.
So, as noted before, as a citizen in a democratic republic, I'll go with the majority position. But, if I were voting, I'd vote to allow the baker to reject a request to make a cake for a gay wedding.
(April 21, 2015 at 11:02 am)Vox Populi Wrote: Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_...in_animals
This may be interesting:
" As of 1999, about 500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, have been documented engaging in same-sex behaviors.[3][4] According to the organizers of the 2006 Against Nature? exhibit, it has been observed in 1,500 species.[5]"
I never knew that all these species have fetishes.
Reading on:
According to Bruce Bagemihl, "the animal kingdom [does] it with much greater sexual diversity – including homosexual, bisexual and nonreproductive sex – than the scientific community and society at large have previously been willing to accept."[6] Bagemihl adds, however, that this is "necessarily an account of human interpretations of these phenomena".[7] Simon LeVay introduced the further caveat that "[a]lthough homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity."[8]