Take as a premise, “One of the key [insert suitable word choice something like: duties/responsibilities/purposes/nice-things-to-do] of being human is to carry on your ancestry and raise healthy children to serve as the next strong generation of humanity.”
Or, as a less extreme version—“A mentally and physically healthy person having kids and raising them with more opportunities than they had is one of the easiest huge benefits for humanity. This is especially true if the person is particularly intelligent and thoughtful.”
If you had one of those premises, you might come to the conclusion that homosexuality doesn’t serve that goal.
Now me, I actually have the second ethic and do believe it, but I also have gay friends and could care less who anyone is loving, fucking, cuddling with, consorting abouts with, or whatever. Though if I had a son that was intelligent, healthy, and gay, I’d strongly encourage him to look into other ways to reproduce and get both the joy of having children and serve humanity by creating the next line of a-bit-more-intelligent and a-bit-better-informed people. (I don’t know what I’d do if I had a daughter who was gay—I’d have to do more research. I think I understand well enough how a gay man thinks sexually and in terms of family, but I don’t personally know any lesbian women so will refrain from an opinion until knowing more.)
(Edit: I realize this isn’t a mainstream view. I tend to believe people have base temperaments and pushing people against their base temperament is a bad idea, but I also think one of the chief forms of the world getting better is by healthy people having kids and raising them with better opportunities and teaching them more than they knew growing up. So I sat down and thought it through, and this is what I came up with. I doubt I’m the only person in the world that thinks this way, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard it put this way before.)
Take as a premise, “One of the key [insert suitable word choice something like: duties/responsibilities/purposes/nice-things-to-do] of being human is to carry on your ancestry and raise healthy children to serve as the next strong generation of humanity.”
Or, as a less extreme version—“A mentally and physically healthy person having kids and raising them with more opportunities than they had is one of the easiest huge benefits for humanity. This is especially true if the person is particularly intelligent and thoughtful.”
If you had one of those premises, you might come to the conclusion that homosexuality doesn’t serve that goal.
Now me, I actually have the second ethic and do believe it, but I also have gay friends and could care less who anyone is loving, fucking, cuddling with, consorting abouts with, or whatever. Though if I had a son that was intelligent, healthy, and gay, I’d strongly encourage him to look into other ways to reproduce and get both the joy of having children and serve humanity by creating the next line of a-bit-more-intelligent and a-bit-better-informed people. (I don’t know what I’d do if I had a daughter who was gay—I’d have to do more research. I think I understand well enough how a gay man thinks sexually and in terms of family, but I don’t personally know any lesbian women so will refrain from an opinion until knowing more.)
(Edit: I realize this isn’t a mainstream view. I tend to believe people have base temperaments and pushing people against their base temperament is a bad idea, but I also think one of the chief forms of the world getting better is by healthy people having kids and raising them with better opportunities and teaching them more than they knew growing up. So I sat down and thought it through, and this is what I came up with. I doubt I’m the only person in the world that thinks this way, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard it put this way before.)