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Are Gay People "Abnormal"?

Are gay people "abnormal"?


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Redress

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For how you define the word "abnormal", do you consider gays to be "abnormal"?
 
Some are, some aren't. :doh

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Some are, some aren't. :doh

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it does depend on definition. Some people aren't normal regardless of sexual orientation. If by normal, you mean is homosexuality an illness or defect, then no. They are not abnormal. If you're refering to some notion of unnatural, the answer would again be no, as it happens in nature. If you'r speaking to what a majority thinks or likes, then the answer would be who gives a ****. They don't have to be gay.

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For how you define the word "abnormal", do you consider gays to be "abnormal"?
Of course it's normal for a certain part of any population to be gay. Is red hair normal? As far as I'm conserned there is no difference in the traits.
 
it does depend on definition. Some people aren't normal regardless of sexual orientation. If by normal, you mean is homosexuality an illness or defect, then no. They are not abnormal. If you're refering to some notion of unnatural, the answer would again be no, as it happens in nature. If you'r speaking to what a majority thinks or likes, then the answer would be who gives a ****. They don't have to be gay.

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Whatever definition you choose to use.

This poll is a social experiment on multiple levels.
 
Of course it's normal for a certain part of any population to be gay. Is red hair normal? As far as I'm conserned there is no difference in the traits.

To be fair Pete, Redress's question isn't "is it normal to have variation in the population?" It's "do you consider homosexuality to be normal?"

It's normal to have serial criminals in a large population. That does not make serial criminals normal.
 
With the way that you worded the question, no. If you had worded it differently, I might have said yes.
 
Red hair is exceptional and exceptionally hot.

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I am curious, Redress. Did you give a lot of thought into the wording of your question?
 
homosexuality being a trait exhibited by such a small percentage of the population it does not rate the definition of "normalcy".
 
homosexuality being a trait exhibited by such a small percentage of the population it does not rate the definition of "normalcy".

What would you consider the cutoff percentage for normalcy? Under 50 %? Lower?
 
The definition of abnormal:

not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

So in a way being gay is abnormal if one is to believe that mating with the opposite sex suits a scientific purpose from a biological reproductive perspective and that this is typical of our species.

On the presumption that you are using the word "abnormal" to suggest it is wrong or unnatural in any way, then the answer would be no, it is not abnormal. We have seen homosexuality occur in most (if not all) members of intelligent species in the animal kingdom. Many species of animal currently alive have members that exhibit this characteristic and it is likely the animals before us did also.
 
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it does depend on definition. Some people aren't normal regardless of sexual orientation. If by normal, you mean is homosexuality an illness or defect, then no. They are not abnormal. If you're refering to some notion of unnatural, the answer would again be no, as it happens in nature. If you'r speaking to what a majority thinks or likes, then the answer would be who gives a ****. They don't have to be gay.

:coffeepap
The question was, 'Are gay people abnormal?". It was not, 'is homesexuality abnormal?". :doh

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What Percentage of the Population Is Gay?

Citing the 10% figure as the proportion of gay Americans, I would not say its abnormal. On the other hand, I would say that something like diabetes, which is much more common, is abnormal. It comes down to your perception of whether it is a good, neutral or bad trait (or however you want to describe it). I think of it as a neutral fact, so I would not consider it abnormal.

Diabetes is detrimental to an individual's health, so I would consider it an abnormality. In that sense, I would describe people with any major disease or sickness as abnormal in that way. I don't think homosexuality is an illness, however.
 
For how you define the word "abnormal", do you consider gays to be "abnormal"?

The question is, what people, country, imperial, civilization etc. in the last 5771 years considered Homosexuality as normal and has not vanished?
 
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The question is, what people, country, civilization etc. in the last 5771 years considered Homosexuality as normal and has not vanished?

Oh man. I have a feeling we are about to be introduced into some really fringe arguments.
 
I would say yes becuase homosexuality is not a typical trait of individuals. Most individuals are straight. Not saying if you are gay that something is necessarily wrong with you, but it is statistically not the norm.
 
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