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I don't make comparisons between homosexuals and animals. What I do is show why if you should morally support one, why don't you morally support the other by the same premise?
Taking a dispassionate view of this it clearly assumes that homosexual relations are close enough to bestiality that the reasons for forbidding one clearly apply to the other. Indeed it implies that homosexual relations are closer to bestiality than they are to heterosexual relations - something I certainly would not agree with.
Secondly it is primarily an emotive argument that relies on comparing homosexuality to bestiality for its force. If you chose an unoffensive example it would not work, would it ?
Finally, one of the reasons that is offered is that animals are not lack the mental capacity to consent in the same way that humans are it is certainly possible to read the statement as implying that homosexuals are equally lacking.
Therefore if you do not wish to offend in this way I suggest that you find another way of making your point.
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