Wonderful and well thought out and well referenced article.
I have one thing to comment on, in re:
“If they say that animals engage in homosexual behavior, you can reply that animals engage in many behaviors we wouldn’t want to copy; we have the capacity to operate on more than animal instinct.”
Animals don’t engage in homosexual behavior. In other words, they don’t have sex with each other. They may raise a chick together in some way, or hang out and bond together, or engage in some male/female behaviors from time to time. But not to the point of copulating.
If anyone out there knows differently, you can correct me, but every “gay seagull” or “gay penguin” story out there, when read, just shows some of what we think of gay acts - like preening or physically sleeping together. Not the sex behaviors we see in homosexual men and women.
“But not to the point of copulating.”
You’ve never had two male dogs have you? ...Not to dismiss your other points.
The bonobo monkey engages in lesbianism, while using sex with males for reproduction and as a way to get the males to bring them food.
That said, we aren’t bonobo monkeys.
Good points. Thank you for posting them to this thread.