My feeling is that proponents of same-sex couples' rights should spend a lot less time arguing about the causes of sexual orientation. I think the appropriate response to articles like that is, "it doesn't matter why people prefer same-sex relationships, what matters is that everyone has the right to form lifelong monogamous relationships with equal social support, because lifelong monogamous relationships are good for society regardless of sexual orientation."
Because, really - what if someone proved that there are environmental factors contributing to homosexuality? Would anyone really say, "oh, OK then, I guess homosexuality IS avoidable, and therefore same-sex couples don't deserve the same rights as everyone else"? I hope not! Because the moral argument ultimately has nothing to do with the causality argument, and by letting the enemies of same-sex rights force us fight this battle on causality grounds, we're tacitly accepting their bigoted assumptions that homosexuality is something that should be prevented if it can be prevented.
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Date: 2006-10-29 08:07 pm (UTC)Because, really - what if someone proved that there are environmental factors contributing to homosexuality? Would anyone really say, "oh, OK then, I guess homosexuality IS avoidable, and therefore same-sex couples don't deserve the same rights as everyone else"? I hope not! Because the moral argument ultimately has nothing to do with the causality argument, and by letting the enemies of same-sex rights force us fight this battle on causality grounds, we're tacitly accepting their bigoted assumptions that homosexuality is something that should be prevented if it can be prevented.