Debating Homosexuality - Understanding Two Views
Excellent look at the points and counterpoints in the homosexual debate. Excellent footnotes for further research. In recent years, activists pushing for a "gay rights" political agenda, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and the overturning of the law against open homosexuality in the military, have become increasingly virulent in their attacks upon social conservatives who oppose that agenda. Examples of these attacks include a federal judge declaring that the passage of California's Proposition 8 in 2008 could only have been motivated by hostility toward gay and lesbian individuals1, and the 2010 announcement by the Southern Poverty Law Center that it classifies several pro-family organizations as "anti-gay hate groups."2 Such attacks reveal a fundamental misunderstanding (if not deliberate misrepresentation) of the beliefs, arguments, and motives of social conservatives. This misunderstanding arises from the existence of two completely different paradigms, or fundamental ways of understanding the nature of homosexuality.
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Responding to Pro-Gay Social Arguments: ‘Ten Percent of the Population is Gay’
This argument has been so overwhelmingly disproved, in secular, clinical and theological sources worldwide, that it may be unnecessary to mention it. But on the chance that the reader may need to confront this claim in future discussions, we will briefly review what is commonly called the “10 percent myth” and how to respond to it.
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Homosexuality is Not a Civil Right
What is a Civil Right, What is Discrimination, Is there a Gay Gene? These questions and more are answered in this pamphlet. This essay is not a legal treatise, but an exploration of the philosophical justification for including various characteristics as categories of protection under historic civil rights laws—and why "sexual orientation" simply does not compare with them.
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