Thursday, December 04, 2008

What *Really* Isn't Natural

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while... Shrug. Here's something anyway.

Fundamentalists often say things like "Homosexuality isn't found in nature, and is therefore wrong." Aside from the fact that homosexuality most certainly does occur in nature (Let me Google that for you), and aside from the fact that some of us consider humans part of nature, and aside from the fact that whether or not something occurs in nature isn't actually a test of its morality by almost any standards, I'd like to follow this fundamentalist train of thought a little bit.

If we use their definitions and assumptions. we find that there are many other examples of human behaviour that don't occur in nature, such as building churches, reading Bibles, and donating 10% of our income. By their own logic, these behaviours are unnatural and are therefore also wrong. And let's not even get into money, cooking, computers, cars, medicine, science, or politics. Since these are all human inventions, they are all clearly wrong by this particular set of fundamentalist "logic".

So in closing, if you happen to believe that homosexuality is wrong because it's unnatural, I cordially invite you to live consistently with your views and stop cooking, buying, voting, and doing anything else that animals don't do.