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Originally posted by j8ear
I did differentiate between abnormal activity and trait (like red hair or albinism).
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*sigh*
Not that I relish prolonging the agony of this part of the thread, but:
if you differentiate between abnormal activity and traits, then you would have to acknowledge that mental retardation, leprosy, mental illness, midgetism, dwarfism, etc. are traits, not activities and are therefore exempt from your judgments about abnormality.
It's also strongly arguable - based on scientific research, not my opinion - that homosexuality
as an identity is also a trait - it is a trait for which there is a very strong biological/genetic predisposition. As behaviors, I'd argue that there's nothing abnormal about anal sex, oral sex, snuggling, hand-holding, monogamy, infidelity, child-rearing, etc., which are behaviors engaged in by heterosexuals, so why should these behaviors be considered abnormal when they are engaged in by people whose only abnormality is a TRAIT beyond their control that causes them to be attracted to people of the same sex? Isn't denying homosexuals the RIGHT to engage in these behaviors "special treatment" (albeit negative - therefore discrimination) of a group of people?
To get back to the thread at hand *ahem*:
If anyone can deny service to homosexuals because they disagree with homosexual identity/behavior, then can they deny service to ANYONE they disagree with or don't like? The government's answer was "no!" To argue otherwise is fine as far as I'm concerned, at least until it happens to be YOU they disagree with.