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Homosexual Myths and Realities
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Or Why HB 7165 on "Lesbian and Gay Rights Act of 199" is not the answer. Myth: Homosexuality is an inborn trait.
Reality: There is no credible scientific evidence that homosexuality is a genetically-acquired trait. In fact, the tremendous variability in sexual beliefs and practices around the world suggest that sexuality is a learned or cultural part of the human condition.
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Myth: Since homosexuals have no control over their homosexuality, society should accept their sexuality.
Reality: Most gay men have had sexual relations with women and many convert to heterosexuality every year. Even if all people are innately bisexual, as most radical gay and lesbian activists claim, either normal socialization or specialized therapy and counseling have succeeded in channeling this bisexuality into heterosexuality in 70 percent of cases. Even if all homosexuals actually had no choice in being homosexual, this still does not automatically make their lifestyle socially or morally equivalent to heterosexuality.
Myth: Ten percent of people are homosexual.
Reality: This figure is based on Kinsey's fraudulent research. In fact, only between 2-4% of people are committed homosexuals or bisexuals.
Myth: Homosexuality is not a psychiatric disorder.
Reality: Though radical activists intimidated the profession to "normalize" homosexuality in 1973, 70 percent of psychiatrists continue to view it as a treatable pathology.
Myth: The diversity of sexual behavior liberates people from an oppressive and compulsory heterosexuality.
Reality: Sexual promiscuity has always relegated women to a marginal social and political position. Confining sex to marriage by sanctions against premarital relations, adultery, and homosexuality has enhanced the status of women by giving them control over a scarce and highly valued "resource" their own sexuality.
Myth: It doesn't or shouldn't matter, except to those directly involved, what kind of sex people engage in.
Reality: Left in a "state of nature" human culture would never have developed. The history of Western civilization has been intimately linked to the history of the channeling of human sexuality into the Judeo-Christian ideal of marital sex. Every civilized society that has failed to recognize that the naturally promiscuous human male has to be constrained by strong moral sanctions has paid the price, as our own society is now paying with growing rates of adultery, pornography, child prostitution, sexually transmitted disease, illegitimacy, divorce, suicide, and single-parenthood.
Myth: Homosexuality is compatible with normal family life.
Reality: Homosexuality is a denial of one of the most important functions of family life, the perpetuation of life itself through procreation. There are some primitive societies in which homosexuality is so pervasive that population survival is maintained only by kidnapping children from neighboring tribes.
Myth: To discriminate against people because of their sexual preference is just like discriminating against people because of skin colour.
Reality:When Black people are discriminated against it is because of what they are; when gays are condemned it is because of what they do. Verbal or physical gay-bashing is unacceptable but this is not the same as saying that gay sex is socially and morally acceptable. It is one thing to grant homosexuals the same legal protections that other citizens have; it is another to grant them the same legal privileges (e.g., marriage) or to celebrate homosexuality as a societally desirable way to live.
Myth: Society has no right to judge the diverse sexual practices of its citizens.
Reality: If this were true, then society would also have no right to condemn incest, pedophilia, rape necrophilia, and bestiality.
Source: Life is for Everyone July to August 1999
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