The Unpopular Opinions

Popular opinion:

Homosexuals shouldn’t be bullied.

Unpopular opinion:

However, homosexuality isn’t natural, and society shouldn’t accept it or make it a cultural norm any more than they should attraction to a table lamp.

The reason that sexual relationships in the animal world generally consist of male and female contact is because sex in and of itself is meant to be used for reproduction. Of course it’s also used for recreation nowadays as well, but I always have to question someone who would say something like “it’s natural for two people of the same sex to sleep together”, because no, it’s honestly not.

I view it as a less extreme version of something like bestiality. It’s a sexual attraction for something that we’re not meant to be sexually attracted to, but we are anyway, through some error in mentality.

This isn’t to say it’s as wrong as bestiality. It’s consensual, for one. Even if I view it as a mental illness or perversion, I will acknowledge that as long as two parties are consenting the act itself is entirely up to the individuals.

At this point people generally bring up the topic of men and women who are unable to have children, but I think it’s important to realize that if someone cannot have children that generally means that there’s something wrong with the individual. In no case will a woman be able to have a child with another woman, or vice versa with men, unless we’re counting the people who prefer to be called female or male. I’m talking about sex rather than gender.

Additionally, marriage has never been a ‘right’. No one is stopping anyone from sleeping with another man, another woman, or five men and five women and a car. The reason that homosexual relationships have never been considered for marriage is because marriage has always been used as a safety net for possible future children. Not only is homosexuality unnatural, there is no chance of the couple ever being able to conceive and therefore the state has never felt a need to interfere.

So, regardless, why am I against changing the definition of marriage?

According to studies by K. Freund and R.I. Watson, homosexuals- while accounting for 2% of the population- commit 33% of child molestation cases in the United States.

Homosexual relationships are by their very nature unnatural, and should not be encouraged or normalized.

And, finally, it’s pointless. Civil Unions would do, and adding more benefits wouldn’t do much besides make it more culturally acceptable. It doesn’t make sense.

Tldr;; I’ve always viewed homosexuality as something akin to a mental abnormality based on the biological purpose of sex and reproduction and I think that while obviously no one should be harassed for it, it shouldn’t be culturally acceptable.