A manifesto of sorts...

I saw Rick Perry's ad, attacking gays serving in the military, and it brought to mind recent discussions I've had with Jehovah's Witnesses about homosexuality.

Perhaps unsurprisingly I've been taking the view of

"Well, homosexuality isn't a choice..."

...and of course as they're defining their argument from the opposite perspective, we get nowhere.

Recently, reading Refusing To Be A Man by John Stoltenberg, I saw a section where he discusses sexuality as a purely political concept. A choice.

I thought... right, what would happen if we begin to play these people at their own game?

Of course, their main argument is:

"It's a choice, and your choice is wrong."

But how?

"God said so." Arbitrary, and rests on me accepting your definition of God, which leads us back to the first problem, so let us concentrate on another argument offered.

"We'd have depopulation... there would be no people left."

Good, we're a bunch of planet ruining wankers anyway.

If sexuality is a choice, though, surely it's just as much a choice for heterosexuals as it is for homosexuals (and anyone inbetween). With population being a political issue, we return to the idea of sexuality as political force.

Population control is a (perhaps unfortunate) necessity. What better way to do it than by consensual sex? People want sex, they don't want to be shot. Let them have what they want, and they'll do what needs to be done.

"BUT GOD DOESN'T LIKE IT!"

Oh... you're still here. What about Intelligent Design?

"YES THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT"

So why did your intelligent designer allow homosexuality? Surely an intelligent (and more importantly all-powerful) designer wouldn't allow a flaw into his system he's created?

Of course, with humans, it's understandable. There are limits to what humans can do. But God is all-powerful. God can do or create ANYTHING.

"BUT HE GAVE US FREE WILL"

Yes, but he could have created a system whereby free will isn't necessary, and we still have fulfilling lives, and fuck whoever we want to (or are told to).

Christians here are very lax about God's creating system. Either he created EVERYTHING, or he's not God. That's kind of how it works with the whole intelligent design thing. The perfect intelligent designer by definition doesn't get it wrong. So I call bullshit when you make claims about intelligent design and homosexuality being a mistake in the same paragraph.

If God's such an intelligent designer why did he make prostate stimulation so easy via the medium of anal intercourse? Why did he make the dick (almost) look like a lollipop?

Anyway, back to the issue at hand.

Regardless of whether God exists or not, homosexuality is important, and we ought to recognise it as such.

Perhaps then we can help our brothers and sisters cure their heterosexuality and join us in a better life.