Immorality of Homosexuality
This article is an extensive moral criticism of homosexuality (and its deriatives, lesbianism and bisexuality), both as a sexual behavior and orientation, whose goal is to establish that homophilic arguments are as ethically unsubstantiated as every other sexual deviance (e.g., pedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, etc.). The topic is especially triggering to some people (and many of my friends are bi or trans), so I'll make it clear that I'm not to demean anyone on a personal level, of course, and any individual is welcome to respond to this article with constructive criticism instead of "dismissing it as bigotry," as many pro-LGBT academics (like John Corvino and Lisa Waldner) exclaim.
The primary reason to shun homosexuality is because Allah has forbidden it and made it a perverse thought leading to a sinful conduct; sodomy. We, as humans, can't figure out the best way to conclude what is right and wrong with our subjective opinions, so we derive objective morals and values from Allah, our Creator Who knows what's best for us, by referring to His guidance (as explained in Secular Morality). In Islam, we're obliged to follow the fact that sodomy is an abhorrent act deserving of punishment, as was emphasized in the Quran (Lot's story) and in the Sunnah (the Ḥadd punishment of sodomy):
And Lot, when he said unto his folk: "Will ye commit the abomination such as no creature ever did before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women; ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds."
7:80-81
And unto Lot We gave judgment and knowledge, and We delivered him from the community that did the abominations. They truly were folk of rebellious evil, lewd.
21:74
Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, and leave the mates your Lord created for you? Nay, but ye are froward folk!
26:165-166
And Lot, when he said unto his folk: "Will ye commit the abomination knowingly? Must ye needs lust after men instead of women? Nay, but ye are folk who act senselessly."
27:54-55
And Lot, when he said unto his folk: "Ye do commit the lewdness such as no creature did before you. For come ye not in unto males, and cut ye not the road (for travellers), and commit ye not abomination in your meetings?" But the answer of his folk was only that they said: "Bring upon us Allah's Wrath if thou art a truthteller!"
29:28-29
They even asked of him, (Lot), his guests for an ill purpose. We thus blinded their eyes, so taste now My punishment after My warnings!
54:37
If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.
Tirmidhi 1456; Abu Dawud 4462; Ibn Majah 2561
Homosexuality (and all of its deriatives for that matter) is naturally repulsive and more abhorrent than a bucket of maggots and rotting flesh to most people. The action of sodomy itself (anal penetration) stems from the same liberal sexual ethics that justify rape, bestiality, and pedophilia (as was emphasized on Secular Morality).
Homosexuality is not just a moral violation as some might think, rather, its acceptance is intended to be the culture of the world as it's one of the many central freedoms liberals hold, and this is what the pressuring lobbies are really keen on in the West; you see the rainbow flag celebrated in most logos every June (because apparently you can only be gay in that month), attempts to amplify the topic of homosexuality in some elementary schools, criminalization of any therapist trying to offer a homeopathic treatment for homosexuality, occasional gay pride parades, SJWs and anarchist hacktivists targeting homophobia on the internet unlike any other forms of "discrimination," and even attempts to dye culture, art, and literature with homosexual perceptions that have never existed beforehand.
Strangely enough, many of these people can't cease recycling the same justifications to prove that this immoral sexual inclination is valid, natural, and moral. This article will approach this issue by refuting the common moral arguments for justification:
- Biological Determination
- Consent and Harmlessness
- Nature
1. Biological Determination ~
Some argue that "homosexuals were born that way"; that it's an embedded and unchangeable predetermined genetical instict that pushes one to have a sexual inclination to the same sex, and is therefore not a choice. In reality, this very argument is no more than an abandoned hoax supported by outdated pseudo-science; historically, the "gay gene" claim first emerged for political reasons back in the 80s to avoid falling foul of anti-sodomy laws in the U.S., which were back then very strict on the matter. When the right of states to criminalize sodomy was maintained in a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, homosexuals sought another route of legal protection by claiming to have a "minority status," which can only be proven if immutable qualities determine that status. In other words, the claim that homosexuals are just "born that way" in the same way that black, hispanic, disabled, and blue-eyed people are "born that way" would've enabled another moral and legal defence for consensual homosexual behavior as something "forced," "unchangeable," and "uncontrollable," thus making it seem that one couldn't be blamed for something that can't be helped. The strategic importance of this idea of was described in perfect detail by the two Harvard gay activists, Kirk and Madsen, who masterminded the modern homosexual propaganda tactics:
The public must be convinced that homosexuals are victims of circumstances, and that they choose their sexual orientation no more than they choose their height or skin color. [...] Publicly recognizing that homosexuality can be a choice, we open Pandora's box with the inscription moral choice and sin and give our opponents a stick for whipping. [...] For all practical purposes, homosexuals should be considered as if they were born that way, [...] and since they had no choice, homosexuality will be reprimanded no more than heterosexuality."
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen - After the Ball (p. 184)
Despite the fact that this argument is no longer needed to provide a legal or social argument for homosexuality in light of the recent legislative and social overhauls of the liberal society towards gay activism, it remains the core of the political rhetoric of the LGBT movement for a number of reasons. Firstly, the more intolerant people become convinced that homosexuals are "victims of circumstances," the more they will, out of pity, show the LGBT movement a gradual increase in tolerance. Secondly, the appeal to "lack of choice" and "hopelessness" allows them to successfully reflect the stigma of all anti-LGBT opponents, thus backlashing the criticism by portraying them as fierce mentally deranged misanthropists who suffer from a phobia of inclusivity and acceptance of others for "who they are" (or accusing them to be covert gays themselves), just like the white nationalists or any other racist group. Finally, this convenient conviction provides them a comforting release from guilt and responsibility for their immoral actions.
Anyhow, being a homosexual is actually a choice, it's not embedded into our genetics at all; countless peer-reviewed scientific studies have unequivocally proved the opposite to the claim that there exists a "gay gene":
- One of these studies shows that the "gay gene" is a hoax, for genes explain only 8%-25% of homosexuality, not even a quarter at most.
- Another study shows that only 20% of male monozygotic twins share homosexuality, which suggests little to no genetic influence because if it was heritable, it should be shared 100% of the time.
- Yet another study shows identical twins with different sexual orientations, and these differences within the pairs are the same as homosexuals and heterosexuals who are not twins or related. From this we conclude that homosexuality is a social influence caused by the environment, and doesn't have a genetical explanation.
- Furthermore, a study shows that, by analysing identical twins with discordant sexual orientation, it was found that sexual orientation and gender non-conformity is caused by non-genetic factors.
- The final study shows that homophobia is 36% genetic, so according to the homosexual "genetic determination" argument it should be considered even more hateful to stigmatise homophobia, because it's even more genetically "natural" and "unchangeable" than homosexuality itself (8%-25%).
In fact, even a multitude of countless statistics (primarily from pro-LGBT sources) attest to this by showing that sexual orientations are fluid and subject to change:
- A study shows that 2.7% of heterosexuals are ex-homosexuals while homosexuals are 2% of the population, meaning there are more ex-homosexuals than homosexuals. Most self-identified homosexuals change their orientation over time to the extent of them outnumbering homosexuals.
- Another study notes that 99.8% of lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers will change their sexual orientation within 13 years.
- This study shows that as many as 33% of people identify as some part of LGBT in their life, while only 5% identify as LGBT at the time of the study.
- Yet another study shows that 2/3 of the LGBT community reported changes in sexuality within a 5 year period.
- A similar one points out that 75% of homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals changed their sexual orientation during a 5 year period.
- This study too shows that 2/3 of self-identified lesbians later had heterosexual relationships.
- A study shows that 52% of gay-identified men and 61% of lesbian-identified women indicated current opposite sex attraction and current or past opposite sex behavior.
- One study says that a whole 67% of lesbian and bisexual women changed their sexuality in just 10 years.
- A longitudinal study of LGBT youth points out that 43% of gay and lesbian youth changed their sexual orientation, and 85% of bisexual youth changed theirs.
- The final study, along with a similar one, shows that sexual orientations aren't static, and homosexual attraction can be "cured."
Perhaps if the claim that people are "born that way" and "it's genetic" was true, then the percentage of people who identify as "homosexual" would remain static all around the globe and throughout all generations. This isn't the case; countless statistics show that the Western society has more homosexual (or bisexual) tendencies than the East, and that younger people are more prone to homosexuality, strongly emphasizing that this has a social influence through mind-altering environmental upbringings:
- Education:
- A survey denotes that 12% of boys and 4% of girls with homosexual teachers have said that the teacher has made sexual advances and influences towards them to accept homosexuality. 20% of those with a homosexual teacher said they were forcibly influenced to regard homosexuality as a socially acceptable behavior. Homosexual teachers influence kids to try homosexuality, 4% have said that the teacher influenced them to try homosexuality. Homosexual teachers are also more frequently reported to have had homosexual sex with children to fit the contagion model of homosexuality, and are reported that they were caught by sexual interaction with homosexual practitioners at several occasions.
- A paper shows that 56% of homosexuals and 18% of heterosexuals reported having a homosexual teacher, strongly emphasizing that homosexual teachers do influence children into this lifestyle.
- The New York Times documents how America has spent $700 million promoting gay rights abroad in Africa through "inclusive" educational curriculums being an "integral" part of the American foreign policy, despite this having done more harm than good, in terms of internationalized persecution (and honestly, shouldn't they provide the Africans with food and shelter instead?).
- Femininity:
- A 15 year long study of the development of homosexuality confirms that boys who act feminine grow out to be homosexual.
- Homosexual Adoption:
- Study finds that male children raised by same-sex parents are 5 times more likely to be LGBT and female children raised by same-sex parents are 3 times more likely to be LGBT.
- Another shows that children of same-sex parents are 1.7-12.1 times more likely to be homosexual themselves, when compared to kids of heterosexual parents.
- More and more studies show that children of homosexuals are more likely to be homosexual and engage in that lifestyle.
- A study reports that 39% of those raised by lesbian parents and 29% of those raised by gay parents identified as non-heterosexual, compared to 10% of those raised in biological families.
- Parental Issues:
- Epidemiological studies find a positive correlation between childhood domestic maltreatment and homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men report up to 4 times greater prevalence of sexual and physical abuse than heterosexuals.
- Data suggests that parents can cause homosexuality in their sons; the combination of overconcernedness of the mother and the detachment and hypercriticism of the father push the boy into avoidance of masculine behavior, leading to a feeling of inferiority because the boy considers himself as lacking in manliness. The homosexual urge is an expression of an infantile longing for acceptance to counteract the loneliness and self-pity of not belonging, and must be seen as a specific neurotic manifestation.
- A study reports there's a correlation to be found between bad parental relationships and the development of homosexual interests.
- A report finds children who experience parental divorce are less likely to marry heterosexually than those growing up in intact families. Persons born in the capital area are significantly less likely to marry heterosexually, but more likely to marry homosexually, than their rural-born peers.
- A study reports heterosexual marriage is significantly linked to having young parents and small age differences between parents. For men, homosexual marriage is associated with having older mothers, divorced parents, absent fathers, and being the youngest child. As for women, maternal death during adolescence and being the only or youngest child or the only girl in the family increases the likelihood of homosexual marriage.
- A study finds lesbian and bisexual identification, attraction and behavior are significantly correlated with absence of a father figure, while male homosexuality is significantly correlated with absence of a father figure for attraction and behavior, but not identification.
To further substantiate the obvious truth that homosexuality is culturally acquired, it's interesting to point out that different models of homosexual conduct have historically existed amongst different societies, and in each case they have a cultural origin, not a biological one. Had homosexuality been natural, it would have found uniform expression in all cultures and civilizations similar to normal (i.e., heterosexual) marriage, however the very concept of homosexuality is unheard of to many cultures. As for the variations in homosexuality, there's the Greek model in which older married men (who often also had mistresses) would act as mentors to young boys and train them to become men, and part of this process involved sodomizing them; at the appropriate age, the mentor would even find the young man a bride, then the mentor would find another boy and start the process all over again. There's the Melanesian model in Papua New Guinea, found only amongst a minority of tribes, where men pass through three stages in their graduation to manhood; first, they undergo exclusive passive homosexuality where they are sodomized by older men, then exclusive active homosexuality where they sodomize younger boys, and finally, they practice exclusive heterosexuality by getting married. These stages were considered to be part of a developmental process, and all homosexual activity had to stop when the third level had been reached; it was considered abhorrent beyond this point. The modern Western model, based on liberal sexual ethics, is way different from the previous models in which homosexuality was institutionalized; it has exclusive homosexuality between adults over the age of consent, mostly of equal status, and also a significant interest in young post-pubertal teenagers, as far as legally allowed in Western countries. It's claimed in this model that this behaviour is intrinsic and innate, and it's also highly politicized, thus this model is unique in the sense that it has appeared and spread too rapidly for it to have been produced genetically.
This is clear undeniable evidence that external environmental and social factors play the determining role in sexual lifestyle choices and behaviors, and this fact is accepted by quite an important share of homosexual activists and pro-LGBT scientists who consider themselves "queer by choice," dismissing the "gay gene" as a propagandist narrative that shames and silences the rights of people to choose and adapt to their sexual orientations, so it's therefore conclusively fallacious (and even discriminatory against a large portion of the LGBT community) to propagate the fraudulent claim of a "gay gene."
It's of high importance to be alert as well for all forms of academic propaganda and scientific studies which are used to deceive the public in this matter; homosexuals are academically active to falsify established biological facts, but the "evidence" is just a stream of zeros stacked together. For example, the gay biologists Dean Hamer, Simon LeVay, and Anne Fausto Sterling altogether tried to prove that gays are born that way by making up a fraudulent claim about the "Xq28 chromosome," yet their efforts were in vain as the biologists William G. Rice, Urban Friberg, and Sergey Gavrilets published another study in 1999 on one of the most reputable scientific magazines, Science, and they couldn't find a single scientific explanation for homosexuality's "innate nature" while the "Xq28 chromosome" fraud was examined.
While it's true that there's not a single serious researcher in the scientific community who would dare to claim that a biological condition of same-sex attraction exists, at best, some researchers "believe" that multifactorial causation of sexual orientation may include a biological component that far away from that to be decisive, and thus the concept of "innate homosexuality" doesn't represent actual scientific knowledge, but a political ideology and rhetorical ruse of gay activists; illogical, fictitious, and unscientific. In fact, Lawrence Mayer (an expert in dozens of state trials and regulatory hearings, including on the side of the LGBT community) and Paul McHugh's Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences meta-analysis from 2016 inspected all relevant studies, and concluded that the "biological determination" arguments are null and void because they find absolutely no confirmation in science.
It's also important to note that even if a "gay gene" exists, the argument from that is fallacious and invalid in of itself, first and foremost; scientifically, it's impossible for there to be "clusters of genes that cause homosexual behavior," because no gene can force a creature to commit anything by itself. Molecular biologists familiar with gene activation, expression, and functioning will understand this well; just as there's no specific gene or collection of genes that cause a person to smoke, play football, or give charity, there's likewise no specific collection of genes which cause a man to find pleasure in sodomy. A gene is neutral, it's naught but a set of letters that represent nitrogenous bases within the genetic code, and whenever a part of this gene is decoded, functional proteins begin to appear; with behavior, one activates a certain gene and shuts off another. The relationship between the genes and behaviors is a synchronic relationship, not a causative relationship.
The problem with homosexuals who majoritarily rely on the "gay gene" propaganda to justify sodomy is that they don't understand that behaviors directly influence the genes and not vice versa, and that there even exists a scientific field dealing with the issue of behavioral and environmental influences on how the genes work (i.e., epigenetics), but at best, genes may play a small role in influencing certain behaviors or emotions in some people which when coupled with external cues, social circumstances, and certain life experiences predispose them to being susceptible to same-sex attraction more so than others who also have the same feelings and behavior, yet never go on to develop such a disposition. Nothing here denies that genetics may influence these behaviors in some way; certain homosexuals, due to their genetic makeup, might be more at risk of falling into homosexual behavior when placed under certain environmental factors, and thus might be more prone to becoming homosexual when exposed to such influences in their lives, so it's not the genes, it's the external cues. Even this doesn't amount to evidence that homosexuality is genetic or biologically determined, contrary to the exaggerated claims of homosexual activists.
Now, even if this genetic argument is true, what in the world makes this "embedded instict" unchangeable? Humans have very strong psychological instincts such as hunger, anger, boredom, lung capacity, phobias, sexual urges, and self-preservation. They're deeply embedded and extremely strong, yet we're still able to control and adapt these instincts. If it's argued that homosexuality is a "deeply ingrained instinct," then it follows the fact that it's changeable, adaptable, controllable, and responsive to training and therapy. This fact directly forces the gay activists to legally enforce the prevention of sexual reorientation therapy centers on the basis of "homophobia," and most therapy centers are now illegal in many parts of the world, especially in Canada and Spain.
Let's say that "genes enforce someone's behaviors," for sake of argument; if something is "genetically determined" it doesn't point out that it's right (i.e., justified, substantiated, correct, valid, moral, ethical, etc.); there exist multiple claims that crime, pedophilia, and alcoholism have all been recorded as genetically present, so does that justify one being a pedophile? Why is it that the conduct of sodomy is genetically forced upon a homosexual yet homicide is not forced upon a serial murderer? Why is it that society and science altogether shun alcoholism as a mental disorder but completely embrace homosexuality when one is recorded to be even more genetical (50%) than the other (8%-25%)? I, as a male person with human inclinations, have never even thought nor found special pleasure in drinking alcohol, being a murderer, nor a pedophile, even though I might possibly have the alcoholic, criminal, or pedophilic genes. If I was exposed to a society where alcohol, crime, and pedophilia is rampant and is the norm (like homosexuality currently is), these genes may make me more prone to finding pleasure in these actions than the average person, but they won't force me to do that.
Some gay people say that even though there may not exist any gay genes, there exists a "biological relationship between pre-natal hormone exposure and brain anatomy with homosexuality." This is false; there's not a single convincing study as of yet proclaiming that. The reason why this argument gets brought up is because a genetic cause has already been conclusively disproven, thus homosexual academics embark upon other avenues to help establish any biologically-related cause to support their propaganda efforts.
Bad news is that the brain structure has a high degree of plasticity (i.e., it's constantly changing due to personal experiences), thus, even if we accept for argument's sake that "homosexual brains" are noticeably different to "heterosexual brains," that would be a result of years of conditioning and adaptation with repeat thinking patterns and behaviors, similar to "taxi driver brains," as the study shows. This establishes an environmental cause for the difference, not a fundamentally biological one. In fact, it's scientifically proven that a "pedophile brain structure," along with a "transsexual one," differ fundamentally from the brain structure of others due to this plasticity. That wouldn't be much convincing to give a moral explanation for pedophilia and transsexuality.
2. Consent and Harmlessness ~
The golden moral standard of homosexuality is that "it's a consensual act that doesn't affect nor harm you or anyone involved," but in reality if we examine morality carefully we'll notice that the moral permissibility of an action doesn't depend solely on consent and the harm principle (as explained in Secular Morality > 3. Consent), since this logic would permit things like incest, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, cannibalism, and much more.
Surely one may object to what I wrote in my article about consent by pointing out that children and animals can't give "informed" consent. Albeit it's true that people who have limited cognition can't possibly give informed consent (i.e., children, animals, intoxicated, disabled, mentally ill, or deaf and blind people, etc.), this would mean that homosexuals can't give informed consent as well. The desire to engage in anal sex is no different than the desire to eat plastic for enjoyment, as Dr. Robert Kinney states on his study, both of which can be categorized as a cognitive defect:
Same-sex attraction disorder's mentally disordered nature follows from that physical disorderliness. The desire to partake in such activity is a disordered desire. Desires occur at the level of thought; that is, desires occur at the "mental" or "psychological" level, and hence, a habitual or "connatural" desire to perform physically disordered actions (such as the desire to eat plastic or engage in homosexual sex) could be properly labeled a mental disorder, in my opinion.
Objections to Dr. Kinney's Article (p. 200)
Point of fact; informed consent contradicts the homosexual lifestyle since homosexuals constantly propagate misinformation and censor the fact that this conduct correlates with higher rates of promiscuity, crippling porn addiction, violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, and deviant sexual behavior with rates way higher than that of heterosexuals under any group despite making up only an insignificant 2-3% of the entire population. Homosexuals also definitely don't want to inform anyone about all the harmful physical and mental issues outcoming of such an act, which are by the way rarely even caused by discrimination on grounds of sexuality (i.e., "homophobia" and "heterosexism"), thus wasting lots of medical and therapeutic resources on easily preventable mental plights:
- Crime:
- Alcoholism:
- Between 20-25% of the LGBTQ community have moderate to severe alcohol dependency. (Addiction Center)
- 15% of LGBT had alcohol or drug use disorder in 2015 only, over 2 times more than heterosexuals. (Healthy Life Recovery)
- Gay men are 2-3 times more likely to abuse alcohol and drink to excess than straight men. (Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States)
- LGBTQ+ adults are 56% more likely to develop an alcohol use disorder and 3 times more likely to develop another substance disorder. (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
- Drug and tobacco abuse:
- Gay men are 3.5 times more likely to use marijuana than straight males. Members of the LGBTQ community are also 12.2 times more likely to use amphetamines and 9.5 times more likely to use heroin than their heterosexual counterparts. (Addiction Center)
- LGBT individuals are 4 times more likely to use methamphetamine. About 20%-30% of LGBT abuse substances in their life over 3 times more than heterosexuals. (Healthy Life Recovery)
- 20% of gay men are drug addicts. (PubMed Central)
- While gay men are 6 times more likely to commit suicide, they also are 12 times more likely to use amphetamines, and 10 times more likely to use heroin. (Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States)
- Homosexuals are more likely to abuse illegal substances. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Gay and transgender individuals use tobacco up to 200% more than those who identify as heterosexual. (Healthy Life Recovery)
- 10% of gay men have an uncontrollable smoking addiction. (PubMed Central)
- Lesbians are more likely than heterosexual women to smoke. (PubMed Central)
- In comparison with the female population, lesbians/bisexual women exhibit greater prevalence rates of obesity, alcohol use, and tobacco use. (PubMed Central)
- Homophobia does not have a significant effect on substance use among homosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- Homophobic bullying has no statistically significant effect on substance use of LGB adolescents. (PubMed Central)
- Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths report elevated levels of substance use relative to heterosexual youths. This report longitudinally examined three hypothesised explanations for cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among 156 LGB youths. Counter to two hypotheses, neither a history of childhood sexual abuse nor recent experiences of gay-related stressful life events were associated with increased substance use over time. (PubMed Central)
- Prison:
- Men in prison are 5 times more likely to be gay and 42% of women in prison are self-identified lesbians, thus being in prison has correlation with homosexuality, or vice versa. (PubMed Central)
- Prison population is overwhelmingly comprised of LGBT compared to general population. (Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States)
- Before jail, 36% of women were part of the LGBT community, after jail, the number jumped to 44%. (Sarah and George Publishing Journals)
- Violence and domestic abuse:
- Bisexual men are much more violent and criminal than heterosexual men, and lesbians are much more violent and criminal than heterosexual women. (ScienceDirect)
- Up to 45% of lesbians report having been the victim of at least one act of physical violence by a lesbian partner. Sexual abuse by a partner has been reported by up to 50% of lesbians. Psychological abuse has been reported by up to 90% of lesbians. (National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center)
- Up to 90% of lesbians report being psychologically abused by their partners. (National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center)
- Homosexual men are more likely to have been abused by their partners than straight men. Lesbians are 2 times as likely as straight women to be stalked or physically abused by their partners as well. (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
- LGBT relationships results in higher rates of domestic abuse and violence. (ScienceDirect)
- Same-sex couples have a higher risk of domestic abuse. (Northwestern Now News)
- Over 50% of gay men and almost 75% of lesbian women reported they were victims of intimate partner violence. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- The National Violence Against Women (NVAW) survey found that homosexuals in gay relationships are 3 times more likely to have experienced abuse in the relationship, and 35.4% of lesbians reported a history of physical abuse by their partner, about 2 times as much as heterosexuals. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Gay, lesbian and bisexual respondents had higher levels of psychopathology than heterosexuals across all outcomes. Gay and lesbian respondents had higher odds of exposure to child abuse and housing adversity, and bisexual respondents had higher odds of exposure to child abuse, housing adversity, and intimate partner violence, than heterosexuals. Greater exposure to these adversities explained between 10-20% of the relative excess of suicidality, depression, tobacco use, and symptoms of alcohol and drug abuse among LGB youths compared to heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- Sexual relationships:
- Abuse of adopted children:
- Survey found that 53% of abuse by foster parents is homosexual. In group homes, 71% of the molestation was homosexual. (PubMed Central)
- Claims that gay parents are just as capable of raising children as straight parents are misrepresented. (Journal Storage)
- Children raised by gay couples are twice as likely to be in poverty as children of straight married couples. (University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law (Williams Institute))
- 23% of those with lesbian parents reported having been touched sexually by a parent or adult, compared to 2% of those raised in a biological family. 31% of those raised by lesbian parents and 25% of those raised by gay parents reported being forced to have sex against their will at some point, compared to just 8% of those raised by their biological parents. (PubMed Central)
- Children of same-sex parents have much lower academic achievement. (Cambridge University Press (Children Australia Journal))
- By analysing newspapers, it was found that of foster parents who molested their children, 60% were homosexual, and another study found that 34% of foster parents who molested children are homosexual. (PubMed Central)
- 92% of children with homosexual parents have been abused, 72% are obese, 51% have depression, and 30% are suicidal. (Depression Research and Treatment (Hindawi))
- 12% of kids raised by lesbian parents and 24% of those raised by gay parents reported having recently contemplated suicide, compared to only 5% raised by a biological family or a single parent. 19% of those raised by same-sex parents were currently or recently receiving psychotherapy, compared to 8% of those raised by their heterosexual parents. 40% of those raised by lesbian parents and 25% raised by gay parents reported cheating on their partner, compared to 13% of those raised by their biological parents. 28% of kids raised by lesbian parents and 20% of those raised by gay parents reported being currently unemployed, compared to 8% raised by a biological family and 13% raised by a single parent. 20% of those raised by lesbian parents and 25% of those raised by gay parents reported having contracted an STD, compared to 8% of those raised by their biological parents. 39% of those raised by lesbian parents and 29% of those raised by gay parents reported identifying as non-heterosexual compared to only 10% of those raised by a biological family. 23% of those with lesbian parents reported having been touched sexually by a parent or adult, compared to 2% of those raised in a biological family. 31% of those raised by lesbian parents, and 25% of those raised by gay parents, reported being forced to have sex against their will at some point, compared to 8% of those raised by their biological parents. (PubMed Central)
- Child abuse:
- Homosexual people are more likely to be molested, and they are in turn more likely to molest children. (PubMed Central)
- Meta analysis of 19 studies found that homosexuals and bisexuals are between 12-16 times more likely to molest children, while homosexual and bisexual educators account for 80% of molestation of pupils and are 90-100 times more likely to molest pupils. (National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Office of Justice Programs))
- Homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles, and 33% of child molesters are LGBT. (Taylor & Francis Online)
- A gigantic study of over 4000 pedophiles found that about 33% of pedophiles are homosexual and bisexual, and that homosexual pedophiles are significantly more likely to reoffend and are harder to be psychologically treated. (SpringerLink)
- Approximately 1/3 of victims of sex offenders are boys; in English prisons, there were about 3000 sex offenders of whom only 12 were women, conclusion being that female pedophiles are extremely rare. Therefore, homosexual pederasts could comprise 33% of the pedophiles in English prisons. (Taylor & Francis Online) (Human Rights Watch)
- About 33% of victims of child sexual abuse are male, and 97% of pedophiles are male, thus in the scenario with least homosexuals pedophiles, over 30% of child sexual abuse is done by homosexuals. (Bureau of Justice Statistics (Office of Justice Programs)) (Human Rights Watch)
- 46% of gay men report having been homosexually molested in childhood. (PubMed Central)
- An analysis on the reports of molestation was done through newspapers and it was found that 40%-60% was homosexual molestation. (PubMed Central)
- Analysing newspapers, it was found that over 50% of all teacher pedophiles are homosexual. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals and bisexuals make up about 30-45% of all pedophiles. (ScienceDirect) (Journal Storage) (Semantic Scholar)
- 76% of lesbians have experienced childhood sexual abuse. (PubMed Central)
- 47% of homosexuals were sexually abused in childhood. (Europe PubMed Central)
- 35.5% of homosexuals were homosexually abused in childhood. (PubMed Central)
- 42.4% of lesbians were sexually abused in childhood. (PubMed Central)
- 23% of lesbians report being homosexually molested in childhood compared to 1% of heterosexual women. (PubMed Central)
- 56% of homosexuals were homosexually molested in childhood and 22% of lesbians were homosexually abused in childhood. (The Open Psychology Journal)
- More than 80% of victims of pedophilia from catholic priests have been boys. Data in this source proves that the proportion of homosexual men in the priesthood is correlated almost perfectly with the percentage of male victims and with the overall incidence of abuse. Homosexuality has a prominent play in these situations. (ResearchGate)
- 70.8% of clergy pedophiles are homosexual pedophiles, as shown by phalometric testing. (ResearchGate)
- Homosexuals are responsible for 26% of male childhood sexual abuse cases and 23% of female childhood sexual abuse cases according to Glenda Testone, manager of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), who cited a study from the American Academy of Pediatrics saying that it is proof that gays are not the majority of pedophiles, not realizing she proved that the possibly lowest statistic about homosexual pedophilia still makes homosexuals about 12 times more likely to be pedophiles according to their population (2%). (Baptist Press)
- 42% of offenders for non-incestual child molestation are homosexual, whilst overall rate is 27% for homosexual and bisexual offenders. (Sarah and George Publishing Journals)
- CDC study found 28% of child molestation before age of 18 is done by Homosexuals. (American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
- About 1/6 men are abused in their life and about 1/4 women are abused in their life meaning the proportion of male-female victims is 2:3, yet 96% of child abusers are male. (National Sexual Violence Resource Center) (American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
- When comparing CSA (Childhood Sexual Abuse) of homosexuals and CSA of heterosexual women, we find that 80% of homosexuals suffered severe sexual abuse compared to only 20% of heterosexual women which display a more positive correlation between CSA and homosexuality. (Oregon State University)
- Homosexuality is a perversion that is strongly related to pedophilia. (PubMed Central) (The Lantern Project)
- 37% of children who have been sexually abused are boys while only 5% of child molesters are female. (National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Office of Justice Programs)) (PsycNet (American Psychological Association))
- Homosexuals are much more likely to have been molested as children; 31.6% of gay men were molested in childhood and 38.6% of lesbians were molested in childhood. (Semantic Scholar)
- Men commit 94.6% of sexual abuse against young boys. (ResearchGate)
- 60% of self-proclaimed pedophiles are homosexual. (PubMed Central)
- Gender ratio of victims of childhood sexual abuse is 2:1. 86% of abuse against males is done by males, and 6% of abuse against females are by females. Therefore, over 32% of child sexual abuse is done by homosexuals. (HealthyPlace)
- Men commit 94.6% of sexual abuse against young boys whilst boys are 33% of victims of child sexual abuse according to one study and 37% according to another Indian study. (ResearchGate) (Semantic Scholar) (Semantic Scholar)
- 46% of female pedophiles are lesbians if we conclude that the victim gender ratio is 2:1. (Human Rights Watch) (HealthyPlace)
- The lowest pro-LGBT statistic ever found about homosexual pedophilia says that homosexuals are 25% of pedophiles. (PubMed Central)
- Pornography:
- The more you watch porn, the more likely you are to identify as LGBT, almost 35% of people who watch porn several times a day are LGBT. Meaning LGBT are 9 times more likely to watch porn several times a day. Also, gay and bisexual people report lower stigma associated with it. (PinkNews)
- Gay men on average watch 3 hours of porn every week compared to only 70 minutes for heterosexual men. Homosexuals therefore watch almost 3 times more pornography on average. (PubMed Central)
- In the U.S., gay and bisexual men watch porn 3 times more than heterosexual men, by May 1st, 2019. (PubMed Central)
- Association between porn use and homosexual sexual behaviors is statistically significant. (PubMed Central)
- Lesbians and FtM transsexuals first view porn at a significantly younger age than heterosexual women. LGBT males also have highest frequency of consuming porn out of all groups. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals are significantly more likely to engage in masturbation. (PubMed Central)
- 30% of victims of child pornography are not female (at least 25% are male), and one study of victims of child pornography found 33% of its participants were male. In addition, 99.3% of abusers who possess and produce child pornography are men, therefore, homosexuals are responsible for 25%-35% of child pornography cases, all while making up only few percentage of the population. (Statista) (United States Sentencing Commission) (National Center for Victims of Crime)
- Promiscuity and divorce:
- The average gay man has 4 partners every year and 25% of gay men have 13+ partners every year. The average heterosexual man, however, has 8 partners in his entire life. Therefore, the average gay man has more partners in 2 years than a heterosexual man has in a lifetime. In other words, they got more chances in a year than we'll ever get in a hundred years. (ResearchGate)
- While heterosexual women have an average of 4 partners in their lifetime, and heterosexual men have an average of 6 partners in their lifetime, homosexuals have an average of 22 partners in their lifetime. 69% of homosexuals have more than 10 partners in a lifetime and 38% have 50+ partners in a lifetime, while only 28% of heterosexual men had over 15 partners in a lifetime. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- By 2014, over 25% of homosexual men had over 10 partners in Australia. (ResearchGate)
- In Europe, the average person has about 6 partners in their lifetime compared to homosexual men who have an average of 31 partners in their lifetime. (PubMed Central)
- 73% of gay men have 10+ partners in a lifetime. (Journal Storage)
- 56% of heterosexual men had only 1 partner in the last 12 months compared to 28% of homosexual men. 31% of homosexual men had 4+ partners in the last 12 months compared to only 11% of heterosexual men. 11% of lesbians had 4+ partners compared to 4% of heterosexual women. (Contexts (American Sociological Association))
- In the last 5 years, only 15% of homosexuals have had 1 partner compared to 62% of heterosexuals. (BioMed Central Public Health)
- During 5 years, 35% of homosexuals have been reported having 10+ partners compared to only 6.3% of heterosexuals. (BioMed Central Public Health)
- Homosexuals have an average of 3 times more partners and mean average about 7 times more partners, however, during 5 years of study, 40% of homosexuals do not live with a partner or are in a steady relationship compared to only 17% of heterosexuals. (BioMed Central Public Health)
- Gay males are more likely than heterosexual males to become sexually active at a younger age (12.7 vs. 15.7 years) and to have had multiple sexual partners. The same is true for lesbians and heterosexual females (15.4 vs. 16.2 years). (ScienceDirect)
- Male homosexual monogamy is a myth. Monogamy is not a central feature of most homosexual relationships. (ADvindicate (Archive)) (The New York Times) (Taylor & Francis Online)
- Only 14% of gay men are strictly monogamous. (AIDS Map)
- Homosexuals are much more likely to not have a stable relationship; 86% of LGBT 18-24 year olds have started a new relationship in 2013 compared to only 56% of heterosexual men and 34% of heterosexual women. 72% of LGBT 35-39 year olds have started a new relationship in the same year compared to only 21% of heterosexual men and 10% of heterosexual women. (PubMed Central)
- Most MSM (69.9%) reported at least one female partner in their lifetime. Similar proportions of MSM and heterosexuals (1/5) reported at least one new female partner in the past year. (BioMed Central Public Health)
- Homosexuals who have more partners are more likely to smoke, drink, be single or not live with their partner(s). (Sexual & Reproductive Health (British Medical Journal))
- The more partners you have in a homosexual relationship, the more likely you are to have cancer, to smoke, drink, and have a long lasting illness. (Reuters)
- In 2000, married homosexuals were 40% more likely than straight couples to divorce. (The New York Times (Archive))
- Lesbian couples are 3 times more likely to divorce than straight couples. (Universität zu Köln)
- 41% of gay men don't actually have relationships with a partner. Among those who have a relationship with 1 partner, about 25% of those relationships are less than 1 year old. As for other gay men, only 12% have been in a relationship with a partner for longer than 5 years. (ResearchGate)
- Over 50% of gay men in Britain say they cheated on their partner (while an entire 25% of gay men think blowjobs and handjobs aren't considered cheating). (Metro Weekly)
- Married homosexuals are significantly more likely to divorce than heterosexuals, finds large Norwegian study. (Wiley Online Library)
- Sexual abuse:
- Homosexuals are over 3 times more likely to have history of being raped. (Semantic Scholar)
- Up to 50% of lesbians have reported sexual abuse. (PubMed Central)
- 1/4 victims of intimate partner violence are within relationships of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer identifying people. 1/4 bisexual women will experience sexual violence. 2/5 gay men will be sexually abused. About 30% of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children. (Center for Family Justice)
- 20% of sex offenders self identify as LGBT. (University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law (Williams Institute))
- Overall, bisexual or lesbian women have significantly higher prevalence of physical or sexual abuse than heterosexual or unsure adolescents. Bisexual or lesbian women are the most likely to have engaged in prostitution during the previous year. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals are more likely to commit incest. (PubMed Central)
- Mental health:
- Autism:
- Only 63% of autistic individuals are heterosexual, much lower than the general population. (PubMed Central)
- Eating disorders:
- Gay men are 7-12 times more likely than straight men to have eating disorders. (National Eating Disorders Association)
- Lesbians are twice as likely as straight women to have eating disorders. (National Eating Disorders Association)
- Psychology and suicide:
- In Sweden, a country with an extremely tolerant legal and social climate for homosexuality, married gays have 3 times higher suicide rates and are significantly more depressed, even after adjusting for socioeconomic status, also after adjusting for HIV status. This absolutely debunks the "discrimination causes mental problems" argument. (SpringerLink)
- Homosexual men in Denmark, which is considered the most pro-gay society, still have an 8 times higher risk for suicide. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals in the Netherlands, yet another Scandinavian country with a supportive climate for homosexuality, are 10 times more likely to report suicidal thoughts. (PubMed Center)
- Discrimination due to sexual orientation alone is not significantly associated with past year psychiatric disorders. (PubMed Central)
- Compared to heterosexuals, LGBT individuals have significantly poorer mental health, higher levels of psychological distress, greater likelihood of having a mental disorder diagnosis, more substance use, etc., and although perceived discrimination was associated with almost all of the indicators of mental health and utilization of mental health care, adjusting for discrimination does not account for these mental health disparities between heterosexual and LGBT individuals, meaning discrimination isn't causing it. (Journal of LGBT Health Research (Taylor & Francis Online))
- It's often suggested that suicide in LGBT youth is due to discrimination, but when 120 consecutive suicides were analysed it was found that in 0 cases among LGBT youth did the suicide follow an episode of stigma, yet those who committed suicide did have other mental disorders as well. (Wiley Online Library)
- Even after adjustment for discrimination, victimization and social isolation, that only partially mediates relationship between psychiatric disorders and homosexuality; homosexuals are still significantly more likely to have other mental illnesses. (PubMed Central)
- A 2022 meta analysis of studies on mental health of sexual minority individuals found that compared to heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals are significantly more likely to have a psychiatric disorder of all categories, and are significantly more likely to have depression or be suicidal. There also is no evidence for a trend of an improvement in recent years, despite the increasing tolerance and social support; it's staying the same. (PubMed Central)
- Black Americans are more homophobic than White Americans, and yet, black people are more likely to identify as gay than any other group in the U.S. according to a Gallup poll. If a large portion of the population was secretly always LGBT and homophobia is the reason why less people traditionally identified as LGBT, then this completely contradicts it. (PubMed Central) (The Washington Informer)
- LGBT people are over 4 times more likely to commit suicide, over 2.5 times more likely to have anxiety, over 2 times more likely to have depression, and over 3 times more likely to have long term psychological problems. (Healthy Life Recovery)
- Study of lesbian and bisexual women finds that sexist and heterosexist events were not significantly related to positive psychological well being. (PubMed Central)
- LGBT people are more likely to have mental illnesses than heterosexual people. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals are more likely than straight people to have anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- The LGBT population is 2-3 times more likely to have long-term psychological or emotional problems. (SpringerLink)
- Homosexuals are more likely to have mental illness, have 2 or more lifetime disorders and to have substance use disorder. (PubMed Central)
- By analysing CDC data it was found that identifying as bisexual/homosexual was associated with fewer past attempts at quitting smoking, lower age at first cigarette, and higher nicotine dependence when compared to heterosexual women. (PubMed Central)
- Meta analysis found that LGB adults have higher prevalence of poor mental health and low wellbeing when compared to heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- Non-heterosexuals on average have higher psychopathy, narcissism and self-centred personalities. (ScienceDirect)
- Homosexuality is correlated with high neuroticism. (PsycNet (American Psychological Association))
- Homosexuals score higher than heterosexuals on neuroticism. (PubMed Central)
- Gay and transgender students are half as likely to graduate high school as straight students. (Center for American Progress)
- Physical health:
- Chronic diseases:
- Homosexuality and homosexual behavior reduce life span by 20-30 years. (PubMed Central)
- National Household Survey of Drug Abuse found that homosexual sex is as harmful to the heart as drug abuse, prostitution, or smoking. (PubMed Central)
- The LGBT community has much more chronic health problems than heterosexuals. (University of Washington)
- Obesity and exercise:
- Sexual minorities are significantly less likely to be physically active or exercise. Sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and bisexuals) have on average 1.21-2.62 h/week less MVPA (physical activity, exercise) and are 46-76% less likely to participate in team sports than heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- After accounting for several covariates, compared with heterosexual females, sexual minority females are less likely to participate in team sports and more likely to be overweight or obese. Sexual minority males are less likely than heterosexual males to be physically active or to participate in team sports. (PubMed Central)
- Systematic review of research found that lesbian and bisexual women have significantly greater body mass index (BMI) and a higher percentage with a BMI over 30 than heterosexual women. (PubMed Central)
- Rectal wreckage:
- Homosexual intercourse (i.e., anal penetration) is destructive to the rectal sphincter; the internal and external rectal sphincters will eventually get stretched, leading to an unrecoverable damage to these structures, thus many old male homosexuals are condemned to a life of wearing adult diapers. (PubMed Central)
- STDs:
- Worldwide, the risk of HIV acquisition among gay men (and other MSM) was 22 times higher in 2018 than it was among all adult men. (UNAIDS)
- MSM have longer periods of partnership acquisition, a higher prevalence of partnership concurrency, and more age-disassortative mixing than heterosexuals. These factors likely help explain higher HIV/STI rates among MSM, despite higher levels of condom use. (PubMed Central)
- Gays are up to 109 times as likely to have an STD compared to heterosexuals. The rate of HIV and Syphilis infection is significantly higher among homosexual men. Gay men in the U.S., by 2012, are 67 times more likely to have HIV. (PubMed Central)
- 42.6% of homosexual men have HPV in lifetime compared to just 13.2% of heterosexual men. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexuals in the U.S., by 2019, are 2% of the population yet 70% of HIV cases overall and 86% of cases among men. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Homosexuals in the U.S., by October 2022, are 2% of the population yet still make up 67% of all new HIV cases. 87% of HIV cases among men are of gay men. (HIV.gov)
- MSM are 59% of all HIV cases while being only 4% of the population, and are over 44 times more likely to have HIV, by 2010. Nearly 1/5 MSM (in 20 major U.S. cities in 2011) are infected with HIV at that moment. Between 2008 and 2010, HIV cases among MSM increased 12%, while for heterosexual women HIV cases decreased 18%, and for heterosexual men there was no change. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- In 20 major U.S. cities, nearly 1/5 MSM were infected with HIV, in 2011. Between 2008-2010, HIV cases among MSM increased 12%, while for heterosexual women, HIV cases decreased 18%, and for heterosexual men there was no change. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- In the U.S., homosexuals made up an estimated 73% of new HIV cases in 2016, even though they were only 2% of the population. As many as 50% of homosexuals have HIV in their lifetime. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Homosexuals in the U.S. and its dependent areas were 70% of all HIV cases in 2018. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Homosexuals engaging in high risk sexual activity (unprotected sex, many partners, etc.) are 2 times more likely to have inflammatory bowel disease than heterosexuals who engage in the same high risk sexual behaviors (note: not justifying either). (Gut (British Medical Journal))
- By 2014, 1/8 gay men in London have HIV. (PinkNews)
- 1/5 gay and bisexual men have HIV in 21 major U.S. cities and half of them do not know it. (Reuters)
- In 2005-2014, HIV diagnoses decreased in the United States by 19% overall, but increased 6% among all gay and bisexual men. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Archive))
- Homosexuals are 42 times more likely to have gonorrhoea. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- In 2014, LGBT accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Infection rates for gonorrhoea and chlamydia are increasing among active homosexual men. (Journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))
- Homosexuals in the U.S., by 2013, account for 67% of all new AIDS patients, and all 54% of total AIDS patients.. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Active homosexual men are 17 times more likely than straight people to have anal cancer. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- A study found 67.5% of homosexual men are infected with parasites compared to 16% of heterosexual men. (PubMed Central)
- 10% of new Hepatitis A and 20% of all new Hepatitis B infections in the United States are among gay and bisexual men. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- 47% of homosexuals have HPV compared to only 12% of heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexual men are 35 times more likely to have anal cancer than heterosexual men. (The Journal of Infectious Diseases (Oxford University Press))
- Gay and bisexual men living with HIV and those who reported receptive anal intercourse were at increased risk of incident anal HRHPV (high-risk anal human papillomavirus). (Sexually Transmitted Infections (British Medical Journal))
- 39% of homosexual men have EBV virus compared to 6% of heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- Homosexual behavior creates new strains of multi-drug resistant STDs. (American College of Physicians)
- WSW are more likely to acquire bacterial, viral, and protozoal STIs. (Clinical Infectious Diseases (Oxford University Press))
- Lesbians are significantly more likely to have chlamydia than heterosexual women. (PubMed Central)
- More recent data from NHANES conducted in 2001-2006 among women aged 18-59 years demonstrates an HSV-2 seroprevalence of 30.3% among women reporting same-sex partners in the past year, 36.2% among women reporting same-sex partners in their lifetime, compared to 23.8% among women reporting no lifetime same-sex behavior. (PubMed Central)
- The risk of HIV through unprotected homosexual anal intercourse is seen to be extremely high, as much 18 times greater than unprotected vaginal intercourse. (Oxford University Press)
- At least 94% of monkeypox cases are among homosexual men (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Condoms have been shown to have 70% efficiency in homosexuals as opposed to 80% in heterosexuals. (PubMed Central)
- 66.8% among 4200 homosexuals in 1977 report to having previous infection with pediculosis, 38.4% with gonorrhoea, 24.1% with non-specific urethritis, 18.1% with venereal warts, 13.5% with syphilis, 9.7% with hepatitis, and 9.4% with herpes. (PubMed Central)
The censorship of this information is rampant and the efforts to criminalize these statistics and rule out them out as "disinformation" on the internet are even more of an effort, but that's quite expected; pro-LGBT scientist Lisa Waldner states in a scientific study that the domestic abuse phenomena in the homosexual sphere is censored due to an "insecurity of inferiority":
Even gay and lesbian advocates who work hard to overcome homophobia and heterosexism, would rather not call attention to the problem of gay/lesbian domestic violence (Merrill, 1996), which includes sexual victimization. Elliot (1996) suggests that gay/lesbian domestic violence is kept "in the closet" to avoid providing the straight majority with evidence of the alleged "inferiority" of gay and lesbian relationships.
Lisa Waldner - Lesbian and Gay Sexual Coercion (p. 140)
Someone might come over and say: "Why bother by limiting the freedom of what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms? Where's the harm in letting them be and enjoy whatever they want?" This argument is a weak grasping at straws, because it dismisses an obvious sociological fact; what people believe in their private lives, or do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, does indeed affect others and gradually transforms all of society. This is why Islam seeks to exercise control over what people believe and what they do, even in their bedrooms.
This argument would've worked if "giving homosexuals freedom to do or believe what they want in the privacy of their own bedroom" doesn't gradually lead to a complete social revolution, enforced state laws and educational programs encouraging non-heterosexual forms of gender and sexuality from early childhood, skyrocketing LGBT identity, and a huge wave of stigmatization, marginalization, and a destructive collapse of marriage and family life. Immorality should not be given permission to do in privacy; it will soon turn to publicity, and when they gain global control, they won't actually mind invading your privacy when it's their turn to do so. People should never be given an authorization to do or believe in immorality, even privately; this defeats the meaning of "morality" and "ethics."
3. Nature ~
Homosexuals argue that there exist vastly documented compilations of observed instances of homosexual conduct amongst various animal species, therefore "there is no fixed sexual conduct," and that "homosexuality is a natural behavior." Surely, this proves nothing more than the fact that homosexuals behave like animals. In fact, other common (and "natural") behaviors present in animals include murder, rape, cannibalism, child sacrifice, coprophagia, incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, nudity, theft, and infanticide. Using the evolutionary argument to justify an action is fallacious in of itself (as pointed out in Secular Morality > 4. Evolution), because man is not an animal.
Really now, there exist many sexual practices other than sodomy amongst animals which can equally be treated as "natural" and prone to adoption. The male porcupine drenches his potential female lover in urine at high velocity; she then would expose herself and allow the male to mount. The praying mantis engages in sexual cannibalism; the unfortunate male who seduces the female may make her very hungry after the act, and she begins snacking straight away, starting with his head while he's still copulating with her. The female black widow spider and her hundreds of children also engage in sexual cannibalism; the female seduces the male spider into sexual intercourse then she along with her children altogether feast on the male lover right after copulation. The dolphins, as well, are unironically known as the "rapists of the sea." Just because something happens in nature doesn't make it "natural" in the sense that it's moral, ethical, and acceptable to human beings. Perhaps this argument may make the gay people sound "acting like animals" more than "acting naturally."
Ironically, this argument has been refuted even by one of the most influential gay biologists, Simon LeVay, who wrote that a homosexual orientation seems to be a rarity in animals and shouldn't be given much attention in this regard; the estimated amount of species on earth is said to be around 8.7 million (even though this statistic is a big underestimation). If we use the 10 million figure, then the perceived homosexual behavior that makes up to 2,000 species (which is a generous and overestimated figure since homosexual researchers are obviously impartial on this matter) would only amount to a mere 0.02% occurrence of perceived homosexual behavior across all species. Given that homosexuals are said to make up around 2% of the human population, this would mean that homosexuality is around 100 times rarer in the animal world than in the human world. That hardly makes it "natural," at least not as "natural" as rape.
In fact, the homosexual behavior present in animals isn't actually done for sexual lust and desire, opposed to what homosexuals do. It's either done as a declaration of domination and control over possessions (e.g., the nastiest fights over food have been witnessed among bonobos and chimpanzees, as they could go as far as to murder others then have homosexual relations with their dead corpses), a problematic perturbation in their sense of smelling that causes their recognition of whether an animal is male or female to be confused (mostly as a consequence of the usage of pesticides and chemicals), or most commonly, a biological mutilation of bodily functions (also mostly caused by pesticides and chemicals). We quote here, as an example, a study about the chemical demasculinization of male African clawed frogs:
The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. As a result, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. [...] The present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians. Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. 10% of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs. Atrazine-exposed males suffered from depressed testosterone, decreased breeding gland size, demasculinized/feminized laryngeal development, suppressed mating behavior, reduced spermatogenesis, and decreased fertility.
Tyrone B. Hayes - Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Abstract)
Even from the point of view of the animal, perceived homosexual behavior isn't homosexual behavior (i.e., "same-sex attraction") to them; dogs, for example, are often seen mounting objects such as tables, sofas, or even humans of either sex when sexually excited. This indicates that animals are way more easily stimulated and that their sexuality is less sophisticated because they, unlike humans, have not the same capacity to reason and think, thus they will not perceive their own actions as being "homosexual." Therefore, there exist no homosexual inclinations in animals, or at least in the way that humans comprehend as a sexual orientation.
The dilemma here is that, even if evolutionarily interpreted, homosexuality still makes no sense; homosexuality, as we know, is a product of the non-believing atheist who doesn't affirm the religious rulings that rule out homosexuality as immoral in most religions. Since the atheist rejects religion, he's forced to believe in the theory of evolution as the origin of life and as a foundational cornerstone for atheistic liberal and secular societies. However, homosexuality can't even be reconciled with natural selection and is not equivalent to heterosexuality which is a permanent design feature ensuring the survival and continuity of humanity; leaving a hundred homosexuals on a remote island will lead them to die out within just one generation, showing that this practice conflicts with the idea of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution and the concept of the "survival of the fittest." Thus, promotion of homosexuality and belief in natural selection at the same time is illogical, an oxymoron or a contradiction, say. An exclusively homosexual lifestyle amongst a population will lead to inevitable extinction in the shortest amount of time (i.e., one generation) and the complete disappearance of their gene-pool. This is especially so when we come to realize that such a lifestyle is inseparable from practices which are of high-risk to health and longevity, like smoking and drug addiction.
A counter-argument which is presented by homosexual naturalists is that homosexuality is an "in-built population control mechanism and is part of the natural selection process." To begin, there is no evidence, nor will there ever be, that the practice of sodomy is determined by genes in the same way that skin, hair, and eye color are determined by genes, as we have established earlier, and even then; how and where does gene-awareness arise that the population is getting too large such that the "gay gene" is triggered and expressed in societies around the world to ensure a larger population of gays emerges from heterosexuals so that the growth rate of heterosexuals can be slowed down?
If we hypothetically accept this and assert that the global population of homosexuals is say, 2%, that will still not keep the population in check in the long term, since the remaining 98% will continue reproducing at the same rate and any control effects will be wiped out after a generation or two. In the end, this argument is clearly illogical and works against those making use of it; since male homosexuals cannot engage in reproductive sex but only anal intercourse, their ability to pass on their alleged "gay genes" is compromised, thus they will simply die out in one generation. Heterosexuals on the other hand will continue reproducing, thus, rather than being a "population control mechanism," the alleged "gay gene" should be more accurately characterized as an in-built "self-extinction mechanism."
Turning the same argument on its head, homosexuals can't reproduce. Since all known species reproduce, then homosexuality can't be natural. If homosexuality is natural, then it's also natural that homosexuals are not meant to have children. It's therefore, in the "theory of evolution" paradigm, unnatural to allow homosexuals to adopt children because "nature" did not intend them to have children. Even if there truly is a gay gene, a gay brain structure, or gay hormones, then it's unnatural for sodomists to acquire children because they weren't designed to have any; their genes, brains, or hormones led them to be oriented towards anal intercourse instead of reproductive intercourse.