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Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but I would like for you to substantiate your claim, and furthermore, that no one really cared about such an issue of it were happening in abundance.
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maybe you can explain how promoting marriage, which is the basic unit of society, and supporting greater numbers of consenting adults to engage in it, will lead to a less stable society.
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Because of what it leads to.
What does promoting marriage lead to that you would consider detrimental to society? the rest of your "examples" are irrelevant to marriage.
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You can be monogamous without marriage.
It is an awful lot harder, though. Don't you agree?
From my own experience, I can certainly tell you that if it wasn't for the fact that I am
married, I might not still be with my partner. He would probably say the same.
The institution of marriage is vital to promoting monogamy and stable families. Surely you aren't going to contest that, are you?
nobody can "manipulate" another person to become sexually aroused in response to a particular gender if they don't find that gender sexually arousing in the first place.
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Your husband is a psychologist and you don't see a correlation between the power of suggestion and culture?
He's not a Social Psychologist. He's a Cognitive Psychologist and studies things like memory and face recognition.
Psychology is a big, big field, remember.
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That's as basic as 1,2,3 a,b,c. Cultural influence has an enormous impact on how most people view the world. If an "authority" gives you the go-ahead, then on the basis of their position, you are more apt to listen. If you are a little teeny bopper girl infatuated by some pop idol, and she thinks homosexuality is kewls, chances are you will fall right in to line with your peers.
So, how come "culture" can't turn gay people straight?
It didn't work for Ted Haggerd, did it?
Look, Juggs, you have to stop thinking of sexuality is such either/or terms. Just about every trait in a population can be plotted on a bell curve distribution, and I don't see why sexuality should be much different. ...especially considering the very strong social bonding role sex has in our species.
Anyhow, there will be a few "very hetero" and "very homo" at either end of the curve, but most people fall somewhere in the middle. Culture will serve to influence where they feel free to publically express their sexual feelings and take mates, but this doesn't mean they don't still have the ability to respond sexually to the same gender given the right circumstances.
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Seriously think about it. Look at the acceptance of homosexuality. 20 years ago, virtually the entire population was weirded out by it. That, in and of itself, you could say was culturally induced. Now we see a radical shifting in polarity. How did that happen? Cultural influence. I mean, can you honestly deny that? Call it "awareness" if you want, its all the same thing.
Same thing with interracial marriage. Most people were "wierded out" by that concept as well. So what?
it wasn't very long ago that any openly gay people were often regularly harassed, beaten and sometimes killed just for being gay.
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Sometimes people are beaten and killed over a glance. Its still culturally induced.
That's not the point. The point is, terrorizing a group for certain behaviors is apt to have a chilling effect upon the behaviors. Remove the terrorist threats, and the behavior that was repressed will be more freely expressed.
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You would have no way of knowing that, now would you?
Actually, if you read any history, you know that they have always been there. Repressed and persecuted, but there.
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Supposing mass people have been hiding, did it ever occur to you that they do so because they know what they are doing is immoral?
They probably believed that due to the bigoted and homophobic society in which they lived.
Can you explain to me
without using the a religious argument, why homosexuality is immoral?
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Should adulterers carouse in the broad daylight in the hopes that society won't be so gosh darn puritanical about it?
Anyone who breaks a promise or lies to their family is doing wrong to others and as such is likely to be judged by society as having hurt others.
How is being gay similar to adultery? Please explain.
All of the arguments you've made in this post have been seen before, except they were made 50 years ago by people who thought that society was headed down the tubes because blacks were going to be allowed to marry whites.
All of the arguments you've made in this post have been seen before, except they were made 50 years ago by people who thought that society was headed down the tubes because blacks were going to be allowed to marry whites.
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No they didn't,
Of course they were, juggs.
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and you've neglected to answer the question. Are there any repercussions to the complete acceptance of homosexuality?
I can't think of any, other than religious and gay-hating people possibly getting so angry and fearful about their fading ability to dictate to other people what to do and how to live that they become desperate and violent.
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If not, why?
Why aren't there any reprocussions? Maybe becasue it is a good thing.
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