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sans qualia Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 02:46 PM
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40. Maybe because
if homosexuality were biological, it would mean that male and female are not completely distinct sets of biological and behavioral characteristics. Soooo much of their world view is based on the assumption that they are - male is the One, female is the Other, and never the twain shall meet. Challenging that belief threatens their position of power as heterosexual males (obviously not everyone on the right is male, but it's pretty much run by them ... but then so is the left) by "contaminating" them and their sex, albeit indirectly, with "inferior" female behavior.

If homosexuality is a choice, however, the threat is diminished, since then the "decision" to adopt the "gay lifestyle" is the result of a diseased or depraved mind, rather than indicative of any dangerous natural muddling of gender roles that might dispute the ontological basicness and mutual exclusivity of the sexes.
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