Homosexuality is well documented in over 500 species. Homophobia exists in only 1. What seems unnatural now?

Answer 1

Interesting, not that it matters whether or not it is natural.

Antibiotics, dental care, and all the things that double our natural life expectancy could be considered unnatural. Does that make them bad?

Adultery is natural. It is evolutionarily advantageous for men to sleep around as much as possible. Does that make it good?

Answer 2

Well actually it's natural for some of the species to be attracted towards the same sex. The difference between animals and man is that man possesses reason an moral understanding between good and evil, while animals rely upon their instincts for survival. It's true that animals can be taught right from wrong, but they don't possess a moral understanding between good and evil.
What happens to a species of animals that lose their reproductive instincts they become extinct. Look at the Emperor Pandas the males are not procreating naturally with the females which has caused them to become an endangered species. In zoos they have to artificially inseminate the female Emperor Pandas to get them pregnant.

How sad.

Answer 3

As has been explained it is smoke and mirrors like all gay propaganda.

How is it natural to get directions from those further down the food chain?

How much can we make of the gay behaviour that is defined so loosely and is associated with frustration, deprivation, or damage?

That is why homophobia is used even though the word is nonsensical to use in this way. It is to shut down discussion and hide the harsh realities. Take the gay lifestyle for example. It is hardly gay in the sense of happy:

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Answer 4

Homophobia is just an absurd neologism so it doesn't occur in any species.

Homosexuality is said to be documented in over 500 species but the threshold is low.

The poster animals were a pair of male penguins in a zoo who were so screwed up they tried to hatch a rock. Later they did something considered homosexual. Penguins seem to handle zoo's particularly badly. Being locked up in a zoo seems to result in an overrepresentation of penguin homosexuality.

Likewise male vultures locked up together in a zoo went gay. However when a female vulture was included one of them turfed the 'partner' immediately and paired with her. The other was put out but brightened up when he too got a female and he paired with her.

Pigeons display homosexual behaviour and also try to mate with inanimate objects. Is there a captivity pattern happening here or is deprivation involved?

Female dogs in particular are known to exhibit mounting behaviour if sexually deprived and I believe that can also happen with cows. Sounds like frustration rather than homosexual sex to me unless someone can explain how they manage to penetrate.

Mallards have an unusually high degree of homosexual activity but the females only mate with the males until eggs are laid and don't when it isn't an egg production time. Then males are left to their own resources which for 19% means a male sexual outlet.

Often the 'homosexual' animals either mate indiscriminantly eg. porpoise group sex or have a known defect eg. sometimes avian homosexual behaviour for groups is linked to exposure to methylmercury.

Get the idea? Very low threshold.

Answer 5

Only 1 species was given knowledge of God. Homosexuality may well be natural for animals, but contrary to Darwinian thought (which, scientifically, is obsolete), man is not an animal. We share characteristics in common with animals, but we are not animals. Animals have no conscience and are incapable of making moral and ethical decisions. They can act only on instinct. Man alone is able to reason and consider the consequences of actions and then make a decision on what course of action to take. You might teach a dog not to do something, and he might get a guilty look when caught doing it, but it is not a moral/ethical guilt, but rather the expectation of punishment he's trained to know is to come. And it was only to man that God said homosexuality is a sin. It doesn't matter how you try to rationalize it, it's a sin today, it was a sin yesterday, and it's still going to be a sin tomorrow. So are a lot of other things. Sin is not what man was created for, and we are expected to rise above sin with God's help.

Answer 6

*Natural* has nothing to do with spiritually perfecting ourselves.

Are we really justifying our morals by what animals do now??
I mean...is that really how low we've stooped to justify immorality? If a duck does it, God MUST delight in it too!! Shall we start eating our mates post-coitus because the mantis does it!?

Come on.... There's a reason God gave Adam dominion over the natural/animal world. Because he expected more from mankind and knew we were capable of achieving it.

Answer 7

We have bigger brains than some species that don't have to ability to express Homophobia. Personally, I don't know why people hate gay's that seems unnatural.

Answer 8

You can talk to and read other animals minds?

If you want to take this from a purely natural and survival of the fittest approach and take away morality from the equation, well the heterosexuals actually have the greater argument because purely homosexual behavior in any species would be considered harmful to that species survival.

This is a really bad argument.

Answer 9

That's a fine argument for throwing morals out the window and just being an animal.

Answer 10

Homophobia is a result of a society's culture. Not all societies have homophobia. Animals don't have society so they don't give a ****, to be blunt. Society isn't natural so give up on trying to make it that way.

lostnsav.... How do you know that animals don't have free will? I actually think they do, when my dog wants to play catch he'll make sure I know but when he doesn't good luck trying to get him up. That's his decision, so of course he has free will.