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Anyway, if we are to be reduced to merely the sum of our biological impulses, then there's a whole ton of behavior we need to normalize.

NEVER did I say that we need to normalize the behavior. It is abnormal BY NATURE. GOD has decided that it takes one man and one woman to procreate in humans, but the other poster said that NO homosexual activity occurs anywhere else in nature and I cited an example. The reason makes no difference.

Here's my summary. Homosexual behavior is abnormal, it is wrong, but I do not believe that in every case, the person who partakes in homosexual activity is doing it by choice. Yes, it has become a new fad to be gay or lesbian, but you cannot convince me that there are not some out there who feel trapped in their own body. Outside workings of a man, inside feelings and thinkings of a woman. But it should not be normalized.

It is abnormal BY NATURE. GOD has decided that it takes one man and one woman to procreate in humans, but the other poster said that NO homosexual activity occurs anywhere else in nature and I cited an example. The reason makes no difference.

I'm disputing your characterization of animal same-sex activity as "homosexuality," in the sense that it is used for humans. I have heard of no research that indicates such activity in animals is the result of a displaced attraction from the other sex to same-sex. As I said, most explanations involve dominance exercises/social ordering. Nothing I've seen indicates that these animals eschew normal sexual reproduction with the other sex, but admittedly I've only looked into this issue casually.

I would not be surprised at all if there is a biological component to human same-sex attraction, but I cringe at simplistic anecdotal evidence. I've known both flamboyant homosexuals, as well as those who gave no outward indication. Similarly, I've known several people whom, from their mannerisms and behaviors, one would conclude are obviously homosexual, but were not.

And I refuse to succumb to the post-modern notion that every seemingly normal family is hiding some sordid reality.