2011-06-08, 03:52 PM
Some religions and religious people ignore the fact that homosexuality is not a choice. In biology/anatomy, the concept of "Structure = Function" is key to understanding how things in the human body work. This is very general, but many studies have found differences in the brain structure of homosexual men when compared to heterosexual men. Homosexual men GENERALLY have a brain that is structurally more like a female's brain than a heterosexual man's brain. My biology teacher, who I find to be an very smart man (he's very well respected in the scientific community, too) even taught us about how differences in hypothamalus size in heterosexual men and homosexual men cause differences in hormones and sexual orientation (The homosexual made had a larger node in their hypothalamus, much like females when compared to heterosexual men). I know it's Wikipedia, but this article is a good read if you want to know more.
On my own personal moral compass, it's a sin to treat homosexuals any different from heterosexuals. Being homosexual is not a choice, but apart of who you are. Religion says we were made in God's image, right? If God didn't want homosexuals to exist, they wouldn't. All humans are the same, and it doesn't matter what sexual orientation you are - God loves everyone and everything he made. Don't get me wrong, I'm agnostic, so I'm open to both possibilities of God existing and not existing. I just try to be a good person and make life better for other people, and I don't do it for whatever reward I may get in a life after the current one that may or may not exist.
On my own personal moral compass, it's a sin to treat homosexuals any different from heterosexuals. Being homosexual is not a choice, but apart of who you are. Religion says we were made in God's image, right? If God didn't want homosexuals to exist, they wouldn't. All humans are the same, and it doesn't matter what sexual orientation you are - God loves everyone and everything he made. Don't get me wrong, I'm agnostic, so I'm open to both possibilities of God existing and not existing. I just try to be a good person and make life better for other people, and I don't do it for whatever reward I may get in a life after the current one that may or may not exist.

