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Are Gay People "Abnormal"?

Are gay people "abnormal"?


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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?

What the hell? The last civilization to regard homosexuality as normal vanished years ago due to the fact that there inception was before Christianity 3,000+ years ago. No civilization has lasted that long, so no, you don't get a "cookie".
 
No they're not abnormal because their sexuality is not the totality of who and what they are as individuals. If an entire person was abnormal because of one abnormal aspect of themselves, then every person in the world would be abnormal because we each have something not normal about us.
 
No they're not abnormal because their sexuality is not the totality of who and what they are as individuals. If an entire person was abnormal because of one abnormal aspect of themselves, then every person in the world would be abnormal because we each have something not normal about us.

Good point, it is probobly more accurate to say it is not a normal trait of a person.
 
The question is, what people, country, imperial, civilization etc. in the last 5771 years considered Homosexuality as normal and has not vanished?

If you want to ask that question, start your own damn poll. That is not the question for this poll, and I ask that people not be drawn into the diversion.
 
If you want to ask that question, start your own damn poll. That is not the question for this poll, and I ask that people not be drawn into the diversion.

Why are you so defensive all of the sudden? Is this not an opinion board?
 
Why are you so defensive all of the sudden? Is this not an opinion board?

This is a thread with a pretty narrow purpose, there is nothing stopping anyone from making another thread.
 
Yes, homosexuals are abnormal. One of their most fundamental instinctual drives does not operate properly.
 
What would you consider the cutoff percentage for normalcy? Under 50 %? Lower?

that i couldn't tell you offhand; there i would look for tihngs like stability in numbers (trump spikes in the polls; that doesn't make him a "normal" republican), functionality (the human species is clearly meant to reproduce with both genders involved) and other factors. I admit I couldn't give you a hard and fast number and defned it. certainly it would be less than 50%.
 
Yes, I worded it very specifically.

Norms = Homosexual males 3%, females 2%
Deviation from the norm would be indicated by this statistic. Doesn't that say ab normal?
 
Statistically, it is an abnormality. Just like left-handedness (me), red hair, blue eyes (me), genius IQ, curly hair (me), musical ability, etc. The commonality amongst all abnormalities is that they are naturally occurring variants in the animal design. Their continued existence almost counter balances their abnormality. If, for example, percentages of any abnormality were to increase or decrease it could be said that some outside influence is generating them, thereby making them "unnatural". Since, however, most statistically minority traits occur in consistent percentages of the population, it is hard to argue that they are not naturally occurring and thus, "normal."

An example of an outside influence affecting an abnormality would be diabetes, which has seen rising numbers in correlation to the increase in obesity. It occurs normally in nature, but it occurs abnormally because of an outside influence.
 
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that i couldn't tell you offhand; there i would look for tihngs like stability in numbers (trump spikes in the polls; that doesn't make him a "normal" republican), functionality (the human species is clearly meant to reproduce with both genders involved) and other factors. I admit I couldn't give you a hard and fast number and defned it. certainly it would be less than 50%.

Thank you for the answer.
 
Norms = Homosexual males 3%, females 2%
Deviation from the norm would be indicated by this statistic. Doesn't that say ab normal?

Where do you get your numbers from?
 
Good point, it is probobly more accurate to say it is not a normal trait of a person.

Yeah. I think it's important to not reduce the entirety of a person to a single trait.
 
All the anti-gay bigots are like "ITS A DISABILITY ITS A DISEASE" and then they go "OUTLAW IT".

Wait - outlaw a disability/disease? Damn you sound stupid!
 
I accidently voted "yes" when I meant "no." :3oops:

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.
 
All the anti-gay bigots are like "ITS A DISABILITY ITS A DISEASE" and then they go "OUTLAW IT".

Wait - outlaw a disability/disease? Damn you sound stupid!

Where's my disability check damn it!!!
 
I checked no, but it's a bit strange to isolate one aspect of a person in order to describe their normality as a whole.

In other words, which gay people are you talking about?
 
For how you define the word "abnormal", do you consider gays to be "abnormal"?

Very fun/interesting wording you've chosen here, Redress. I love it! "For how you define the word "abnormal"..." Nice.

No, when I think of how I define abnormal, I do not consider gays to be abnormal -- at all. I would consider gays to be anomolous.

Edit: Wait! I wouldn't consider gays to be anomolous; but I'd use that adjective to describe their preference.
 
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