Being gay.

So my brother and I had this long argument on gay people.

According to him, gay people are mental. They apparently have something wrong with their brain. He also claims that they are not normal. He says that he has watched a bunch of videos that follow gay people and he concluded that they say/do things that a normal person wouldn't.

Does anybody have any insight on gay people or on his argument?

Thanks,

 

As long as someone who is homosexual doesn't try and get it on with me, I have no problem with it. I just don't swing that way.

 

Well, how does one define normal?

 

Exactly.

There isn't anything wrong with being a homosexual unless you are one of the pedos. It's your life, live it how you want.

 

Though i don't feel you can say that pedophiles have something wrong with them and gay's don't. It's hypocritical

 

Called a crime against nature for a reason

 

Yes, but your open to accept someone as a homosexual, why not as a pedophile?The only thing you're doing is allowing them to be open about their sexual preference. Gays have been looked down upon in society even more than pedophiles have throughout the years so why is it okay for them to be different, but not a pedophile?

 

I know, that last post was a joke, and the way I worded my first post did sound hypocritical.

What I meant to say is I BELIEVE that it is okay to be a homosexual, but I BELIEVE that something is wrong with pedophiles. Yes, that has some hypocrisy to it, but that's how I feel.

 

Fair enough. Can I ask you why you feel that way?

 

I do not agree with this statement. Homosexuality and Pedophilia were both widely accepted during the Roman Empire, it wasn't until the Roman Catholic Church was founded that sexuality was repressed. Until the media was wide spread neither of the topic were public in nature, in the beginning Gays were thought to have a mental disorder, but it has been proven that Pedophiles are mentally disturbed/disabled but it has not been proven what causes homosexuals to differ from the status quo.

Source: www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/explaining-pedophilia

 

There's nothing wrong with gay people's brains. They just choose to give into their homosexual thoughts.

 

What I'm saying is that regardless of what people think is wrong with them mentally, at the end of the day your basically telling people who they can and cannot be sexually involved with. Why the dual standards?

 

Would you like for your child to be raped?

Of course not, if you were a true parent. Children have innocence and they are too young to know. That is why there is a double standard. A consenting homosexual man who has an intimate relationship with another consenting homosexual man is legal, but forcing sexual activities upon a child is illegal because they are not old enough to know any better.

 

Nobody said anything about rape or toddlers that cannot decide for themselves. If someone over 18 is with someone under 18, it is considered pedophilia. After the age of 12, children nowadays have enough common sense to know whether or not it is something they want to be involved with. A consenting under-18 child and a consenting over 18 adult is no different that 2 consenting over 18 adults.

 

You have a great point my friend, that I must agree with. The only reason I mention it is the ties between the predatory nature and pedophilia. There is a sexual consent age, and once you pass that age then you can decide what ever. It has been deemed, through means of which I do not know, that the ages below this do not have enough experience to consent. The only difference between a 12 year old and a 20 year old is experience, and I assume that the age is decided upon this basis.

We have taken this post off topic for too long.

Honestly, I do not believe homosexuality is a mental disorder. It is a personal choice, though there are theories. Some of which are more credible than others.

 

I think there are several other differences, physical size, intelligence and emotional maturity among them.

I don't think it's a choice either, do people choose to he hetrosexual? Yes people choose to tell their friends and family that they're a homosexual, but that isn't choosing to 'be gay'.

 

Physical size and intelligence has no effect upon if you are ready to be sexually active, emotional maturity is part of the experience of growth and aging, its developed.

And if you do not believe it is a choice please give a legitimate reason why its something other than that. Link me to some scientific study proving otherwise, I am not trying to be a douche - I am trying to challenge you to prove me wrong. I would love to be swayed from my point and if I am I would gladly admit defeat.

 

I agree with what you said. My opinion is rooted in religion, and I'm not about to bring that into this.

 

Physical size has alot to do with the age the individual goes through puberty, which in turn has an effect on the age of consent. Besides, you said "the only difference between a 12 and 20 year old is _______". I was just pointing out that there are some other differences.

 

I personally have strong views against homosexuals because I believe its wrong. They can't procreate which automatically makes them not "normal". I'm also a christian and so its against the bible so im against it as well. I get shivers when I see gays especially pda.