Christians Losing the Gay Rights Battle Due To the Wrong Argument

Christians have been arguing the gay rights issue from a perspective of the Bible. Although the issue is very Biblical, it is not the way to beat people who care nothing about what God says. It needs to be beaten by addressing the argument from THEIR own morality perspective. They insist that morality is relative. That this issue is about equal rights and that homosexuality is a normal and natural way of life for some people. It goes so far to even say that being strait is NOT human nature. Children in middle school are having pro-gay literature shoved down their throat. With absolutely NO evidence, scientists have been teaching that this is genetic. Children with Christian values get told that even animals in nature have gay tendencies. So lets go there first. So every morning my dog wakes up, she never gets dressed. Naked...I send her out or take her out in public, and anywhere she pleases, she poops. No matter whose looking. If guests are over, and I let my "naked" dog roam the house, she sometimes likes to go "spread eagle" in front of EVERYBODY and " clean" herself. QUESTION: Can I do these things? Even the most hard core pro gay advocate would probably say that showing up naked to work and "cleaning" myself in front of everyone is WAY beyond what is moral even in their morality. What about having harems, just like a lion pack? Would that make me a pig? Are you weaker than me? Better run faster if I get hungry. Or if by race or culture we "gang" up like meerkats and kill the rival "meerkats" its ok? A lot of people would say that these comments are extreme, or that my desires to be like a lion are ignorant and barbaric. These are examples why the argument "it's natural because animals do it" is ignorant. These arguments hold no water. No one can ever tell me that because animals naturally do something, that somehow it then makes it "ok" or "moral" or "natural" for humans to do it. Even that crowd has moral standards that go against acting like animals, because humans are not just simply animals. Also throughout America there seems to be no opposition to the idea that this is a civil rights issue. The equating of the plight of the African American to the homosexual seems to be accepted. Even the gay rights movement acknowledges that the degrees of rights violation are much less for the gay American and do not encompass as much of their life as it did for the African American. For women it is the same. One simply does not equal the other. Simply due to the fact that a black American is recognized anywhere and discriminated against because of their looks, and likewise a female is unmistakably a female (generally speaking), the violations of their rights were much more wide spread. Where as a homosexual is only a known homosexual if they express those desires to their surroundings. The difference is one is an unalterable fact of who they are (generally speaking black or female) vs. the other is an issue of the behavior or lifestyle they exhibit. Right off the bat this should tell us something about the nature of the gay rights argument. Is it legitimate to say that discrimination against gays is a civil rights issue? Is it a legitimate argument to say that the behavior of an individual is enough to qualify someone as a minority? What determines who is a minority or what is discrimination? A black American is black because they are born that way. This obvious characteristic is something that is seen and either tolerated or not tolerated depending on someone's prejudice. The same goes for women. However, the only way someone knows you are a homosexual is if you tell them or if your personal life is lived in public as a normally accepted male and female couple would live theirs. So the argument is whether the behavior of the homosexual deserves to be legitimized as an accepted cultural behavior, put on par with traditional marriage, or whether their behavior is their own, but it is not required to be accepted by the majority. For African Americans, women, handicapped people, etc. the answer is easy. They didn't chose what they are therefore to hold it against them is wrong. This is not the case for the homosexual. The biggest reason this is not the case for the homosexual is because we are not dealing with a state of being, but with behavior. To be gay requires homosexual behavior. It is not simply BEING....it is DOING a behavior that is gay in nature. It is not possible to discriminate against someones behavior, because behavior by definition is CHOICE. There is no other option, and acting on anyone's passions is always a choice, it is never just a matter of fact. The gay community gets offended when we mention the desires of pedophiles and thieves and state that denying those actions are required by law. Although homosexual behavior is more victimless than those actions, being gay is still ACTION, and therefore not an issue of discrimination. To win this argument, Christians need to stop arguing with non-Christians using the Bible, but need to address the issues by changing and shutting down the arguments of the other side by making their claims completely illegitimate. Make them admit morality does matter to them, but for them it is relative, and therefore subject to the whims of the majority like any other legislated behavior that is based on the values of the majority. Last but not least, the taxpayer issue looms large. If tax benefits are granted to married couples, taxpayers have aright to determine who gets those benefits. The government should not be involved in an issue like marriage and theright answer is to have the government and benefits out of marriage all together, but since this is not the case, taxpayers have a say where their money goes. So these three arguments are where Christians should focus their energy: 1. Humans are not animals 2. The gay rights issue is NOT a discrimination issue, but a behavioral one. 3. The marriage issue should not at all be a government one, but since it is, we should have a say where our tax dollar benefits go. THEIDEALNATE