Faith writes:
Well, then, perhaps there's nothing I can say to defend the point in a way you would accept, but the logical problem is that gayness is not a natural inborn category as being black or female is, it's primarily a behavior or an inclination.
I don't see what that has to do with it. What religion you belong to is a choice and not something you are born with, and yet we consider religious freedom to be a human right. We choose what we will say, and we consider freedom of speech to be a fundamental human right. We choose to have firearms, and at least in the US we consider that to be a basic right.
Isn't the whole point of freedom being able to choose who you are and how you live your own life?
Christians often come up against sins we find extremely hard to "mortify," that is, put to death, which is what we're told to do with sins. Some sins are more ingrained than others in each of us and harder to put to death, it takes longer, it's more of a struggle. That is probably the case with some forms of homosexuality. And of course unless you're a Christian you don't have any desire even to try to put it to death so it just gets more and more ingrained.
I don't see why one person must live under the rules of someone else's religion. Shouldn't people in a free country be able to live their lives as they want as long as their actions allow others to do the same?