HOMOSEXAULITY IS NOT A NATURE BUT A BEHAVIOR
As I’m watching and reading news reports on the public reaction to US District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage on the basis that Proposition 8 violates rights of individuals provided for in the 14th Amendment, I find one of the driving assumptions held by those opposing the law is that homosexuality is a nature and not a behavior. The general idea is that a person is born gay, and that is who they are, it is their nature. As such, to deprive a same sex couple of marriage is tantamount to depriving an inter-racial couple of marriage.
Conservative opposition might scream out that the people of California have spoken so it is simply unfair for one judge to impose his will upon the masses. If it is a person’s nature to be gay, and the law forbids the gay person from basic human rights, then an appeal to the majority rule really does not hold much water. If the majority is wrong, then someone needs to stand up for what is right.
The idea of homosexuality being a person’s nature is, however, simply a myth. There is really no compelling evidence that shows people are born gay or that there is such a thing as a homosexual nature. It is self-evident that human physiology is naturally set up for hetero-sexual reproduction. Homosexuality is really a behavior. It is an activity that a person does.
What a law or policy that supports gay unions does is legitimizes a behavior. This activity goes against the natural use of the sexual reproductive systems inherent in humans. One can also point out that a person who engages in homosexual activity is not really being denied any basic human rights in a law that defines marriage as a union between male and female and a law that provides for same sex unions really does not offer the individual rights previously denied; rather, it really legislates a moral principle—the idea that homosexuality is natural, it is just another lifestyle and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. The truth is homosexuality is not a nature but a behavior.
Conservative opposition might scream out that the people of California have spoken so it is simply unfair for one judge to impose his will upon the masses. If it is a person’s nature to be gay, and the law forbids the gay person from basic human rights, then an appeal to the majority rule really does not hold much water. If the majority is wrong, then someone needs to stand up for what is right.
The idea of homosexuality being a person’s nature is, however, simply a myth. There is really no compelling evidence that shows people are born gay or that there is such a thing as a homosexual nature. It is self-evident that human physiology is naturally set up for hetero-sexual reproduction. Homosexuality is really a behavior. It is an activity that a person does.
What a law or policy that supports gay unions does is legitimizes a behavior. This activity goes against the natural use of the sexual reproductive systems inherent in humans. One can also point out that a person who engages in homosexual activity is not really being denied any basic human rights in a law that defines marriage as a union between male and female and a law that provides for same sex unions really does not offer the individual rights previously denied; rather, it really legislates a moral principle—the idea that homosexuality is natural, it is just another lifestyle and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. The truth is homosexuality is not a nature but a behavior.
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