I think this obsession with controlling the private sexuality of consenting adults in their own bedrooms, is pathological.
Tell that to Jesse Dirkhising
However, homosexuality has become an issue because homosexuals are not content to practice their abberations in private. They parade them in the street, they demand the right to marry, to adopt children, in short, to have their abnormal sexual practices condoned and approved by normal society at large.
As a biological organism, the primary function of a human being's biological equipment is to reproduce the species. You can't get offspring from two males or two females, hence homosexuality is a biological dead-end, a genetic or social abberration which could lead to the extinction of the species.
Homosexuality is not normal and is the product of defective genes or the societal programming of a normal individual by abberrant role models.
If homsexuals REALLY wanted to be free of any discrimination, they would crawl back into the closet where they belong.
If homosexuality were practiced privately among consenting adults then we wouldn't have an activist movement, would we?
The fact that we are discussing the issue means that it is not a private matter between consenting adults. Therefore, since those suffering from Same-sex Attraction Disorder (SAD) have brought the issue into the public arena, then we have the obligation, not the opportunity, to remind everyone that it is not a normal or desirable trait and belongs back in the closet.
Shalom.
This issue is not about "controlling the private behavior of consenting adults in their own bedrooms," OWK. Private behavior is private behavior -- until and unless people try to make it as public as possible. Personally, I have no problem with the former being left in peace, so to speak; but I do have a problem with the latter. And that would hold whether the behavior in question were "gay" or "straight."
The real issue boils down to whether society must afford special recognition and protections for any self-selected class of people who raise a big enough stink. This is a blatantly coercive strategy for "social change." Most gay activists, I gather, would distinctly disagree with Ms. Paglia's quite reasonable remarks, above (she, after all, is an empiricist, not an ideologue with an ax to grind).
This society is about "equal justice under law" -- not special privileges for some. Unless you think that "the squeaky wheels gets the grease" is a good foundation for the rule of law in a civil society.
All my best -- bb.