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Maybe because it is sin?

Or is that term proscribed in today's world? Or is it too abstruse an argument
so as to escape elucidation?

Now.. you can say it could (you don't know for sure) be because of genetics, or environmental (overpopulation) impact.  The bottom line is that it IS what PLEASES your senses, right?  Some say this kind of thing is part of what seperates human beings from everything else on this planet - we do things not because it favours the best interest of the species but because it gives us some kind of personal pleasure.  Doing drugs doesn't do anything positive for the species, any other animal would avoid drugs if it didn't provide some life necessity... but us, no, a large group of our species do drugs simply because they find some pleasure in what the drug does to them.  Women get together sexually with other women, and men with men because they find it pleasing to their senses.. These acts  certainly do not favour the species in terms of procreation and survival of the species (although some could argue that it does serve in the best interest of the survival of the fittest of the species.. who knows.. speculation again.. no one will know for another 500 years minimum.. ).

You keep talking about "pleasing senses" and ignoring something bigger...emotional attachment (ie LOVE).

One's 'sexuality' generally defines whom that person will love as well...not just engage in sex with.

I do wish the tenants of 'thou shall not judge others' and 'thou shall mind thy own smurfing business' had made it into the top 10.

In regards to the genetics discussion in the last page... I love to see how people try to simplify genetics. Genetics is not simple, it's not just a matter of dominate and recessive genes determining the outcome of the individual. It's always interesting to see people try to use it in a debate.

Genetics is a very complicated thing, obviously. In the world of genetics, certain gene combinations can produce specific outcomes. Such as having this and this gene does nothing, but in combination with another gene, produces a very different outcome. In humans, for example, left-handedness, I believe, is not entirely determined by what genes you have. Having the specific genes means you only have a chance at becoming left-handed.
External factors can also determine many things during development. The most commonly known one is temperature. Higher and lower temperatures determine the sex of certain reptiles.
Not forgetting excessive amounts of certain chemicals and hormones is also believed to cause changes to an individual during development.

One theory has been that homosexuality is caused by an dramatic change in the amount of hormones the fetus is exposed to, possibility related to stress on the mother.

Then there is the obvious possibility it is caused by common chromosomal mutations. Although I think that's unlikely considering how many homosexuals there are... who knows.

Regardless, anyone that knows anything about genetics knows the arguments against homosexuality in regards to genetics is nonsense spouted by people ignorant on the subject.

<note: I don't claim to be an expert either, but I've studied it quite a bit as a microbiology student... and I know when BS is BS>

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