by Star 
(Fighting homophobia is the moral thing to do)
“Before they had gone to bed, all the
men from every part of the city of Sodom -both young and old-surrounded
the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to
you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with
them." ..Then they (the two men) struck the men who were at
the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that
they could not find the door.
The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here sons-in-law, sons
or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them
out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to
the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy
it."
Genesis 19, the Holy Bible
The above verses from the "Holey Book" are
the foundation of the religious hatred for homosexuality. In the
biblical fairytale of Lot, the tribe’s men were going to
rape the two men. Somebody should remind The Believers that homosexuality
has nothing to do with rape. Rape is terrible, immoral, and unethical;
it doesn’t matter how it’s done - homosexually or
heterosexually.
Fighting homophobia is the moral thing to do. Here is my argument
regarding homosexuality. And this is my moral struggle to challenge
The Believers of the "Holey Book" on the
basis of rationality and logic. Therefore, the following argument
is for those who pursue rationality and speak in the language
of logic than anything else.
Before you judge about moral aspects of homosexuality, you should
try to understand amply the difference between normality and something
being natural.
A phenomenon is called natural when it occurs during the course
of evolution or by the will of God (If you believe in God) independent
from human interference. This is a very reasonable definition,
which should satisfy almost everybody.
Normality is a complete different story and I should be very
careful to define it. As a communal understanding, a phenomenon
is called the norm when it occurs in majority. In other words,
you can compare one phenomenon to another in the same measuring
class and the one with a majority occurrence is considered as
the norm or the normal one.
Let’s apply these two definitions to homosexuality. Is
homosexuality natural? The answer is definitely positive. Why?
Because there are more than 450 different species in the kingdom
of animalia in which homosexuality is perpetuated, particularly
among their male populations. So homosexuality indeed occurs in
nature. There are lions, zebras, gazelles, wildebeests, snakes,
many birds, and even wasps and fruit-flies, which go nuts about
their own gender. Don’t blame lions or zebras for such existential
identity but God or Mother Nature if you don’t like it.
Can homosexuality be the norm? The answer for this question is
a tricky one. The answer is: "It depends." You may already
know where I am getting at by now. Oh yes! Homosexuality could
be the norm if the majority of a population practiced it. Or put
it this way, homosexuality is not considered as the norm in our
society when the majority of a population is heterosexual. The
truth is that normality is a conventional category made by man
to classify and emphasize a specific social phenomenon or a biological
trait being in majority. So, really, to be the norm means nothing
except to be preponderance and that’s why normality equals
to commonality.
Now, to answer the question whether homosexuality is moral or
immoral, all I can say is that normality or commonality does not
determine morality. It is like saying that the natural and normal
skin color (the common skin color) of the most Homo sapiens in
Africa is black, however, there is a small percent of the African
population whose natural skin colour is white. Does this mean
that being white Homo sapiens, as a minority, among the majority
of the black African Homo sapiens is immoral? The answer is, obviously,
negative. Therefore, morality and homosexuality are like apples
and oranges.
Just think about it for a moment with your powerful free mind,
away from any social, religious, political, cultural, and traditional
influences and answer this question: By knowing that homosexuality
is natural and it happens in a small portion of a population,
is homosexuality moral or immoral?
As you may already know, the answer is neither. Homosexuality
like heterosexuality and any other natural phenomenon is not about
ethics and morality but about nature revealing itself in the most
possible incomparable ways. Variation in nature is natural and
it is the beauty of our unique world indeed. Homosexuality and
heterosexuality are about two human beings seeking mutually and
consciously love, peace, happiness, and compassion in each other.
It really doesn’t matter what color, nationality and gender they
are.
Nevertheless, Lot, the prophet, preferred his two daughters to
be raped than the two men by his tribe’s men.
Lot went outside to meet them (his tribe’s men) and
shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't
do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have
never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and
you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything
to these men,
Genesis 19, the Holy Bible |