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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	I am glad you mentioned animals
	Date:	8/2/2012 5:04:52 PM

This is probably the worst analogy that anyone could use to support that lifestyle for a variety of reasons.

First and foremost, if you examine this kind of behavior in the wild it is always associated with populations under stress and in essence you have animals that are not going to be around for long. It is not common behavior and it is indicative of serious problems, not some natural proclivity. You need to look at studies about people who have same gender attraction issues and you will find a disproportionate percentage of mental illness, abnormal childhoods, etc. Not everyone but a substantially larger percentage than the general population. One only has to see a gay pride parade to recognize people that have issues.

Second, to justify any human behavior based on some abnormality in animals lowers us to their level of intellect and reason. There is an entire list of animal behavior that I am quite sure you and I and our gay friends would not find acceptable at any level or in any percentage of human beings. For example, a certain percentage of animals eat their young. I don't think you would be willing to make the argument that it is acceptable for some percentage of humans to eat their young simply because some animals do, would you? I know I would not but that is in essence what you are doing to excuse same gender attraction. I could provide you with a whole list of behaviors much more common in animals that humans would not find acceptable at any level. That is a very bad rationale for excusing this lifestyle choice.

The fact is that we have been blessed with the ability to reason beyond even the most intelligent of all animals. That is the image and likeness that we are created to share with God, not how we look. We have a conscience, we have a soul and we operate on the basis of right and wrong...the natural law as opposed to the basic instincts that animals operate under. Its not that we don't have many of those same basic instincts, but that we are called as human beings made in the image and likeness of God to rise above them. Justifying any behavior based on what animals do is the worst of all arguments.