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| style="padding:15px;" |''"For example, it is an uncontested fact that homosexual sexual behaviors spread disease. When reminded of this, “gay” sympathizers say, “Heterosexuals do the same things.” This isn’t a logical defense of homosexuality per se, since two wrongs don’t make a right. However, it is an argument for treating homosexuality equally with heterosexuality if the two were truly equivalent.'''But they are not'''."''  

| style="padding:15px;" |''"For example, it is an uncontested fact that homosexual sexual behaviors spread disease. When reminded of this, “gay” sympathizers say, “Heterosexuals do the same things.” This isn’t a logical defense of homosexuality per se, since two wrongs don’t make a right. However, it is an argument for treating homosexuality equally with heterosexuality if the two were truly equivalent. '''But they are not'''."''  

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One purpose of ''sexual orientation theory'' is to create a context in which homosexuality and heterosexuality hold '''equal status'''. The notion of equivalency between homosexuality and heterosexuality is very important to “gay” arguments. For one thing it neutralizes health and safety arguments against the legitimization of homosexuality.

One purpose of ''sexual orientation theory'' is to create a context in which homosexuality and heterosexuality hold '''equal status'''. The notion of equivalency between homosexuality and heterosexuality is very important to “gay” arguments.  

For one thing ''sexual orientation theory'' neutralizes health and safety arguments against the legitimization of homosexuality.

 

Unlike homosexuality, heterosexuality is ''immutable''. To define heterosexuality as merely sexual conduct between people of compatible genders is to suppress a fundamental [[truth]] about what it means to be human. All [[human beings]] with the exception of [[hermaphrodites]] (people with a congenital deformity that causes them to have both male and female genitalia) are born with a [[Reproductive organs|reproductive system]] that is heterosexual by nature. We are either [[male]] or [[female]], what is also reflected in [[Natural order]]. We have sexual feelings only because of chemical and other processes that are rooted in our procreative heterosexual design. Thus, a male 'sexual orientation' toward a female (or vice versa) is self-evidently normal and natural. By contrast, a male-to-male or female-to-female 'orientation' is self-evidently abnormal and unnatural, in fact it is a [[sexual disorientation]]. For homosexuality to be equivalent to heterosexuality, it would need to be rooted in its own homosexual [[physiology]].

Unlike homosexuality, heterosexuality is ''immutable''. To define heterosexuality as merely sexual conduct between people of compatible genders is to suppress a fundamental [[truth]] about what it means to be human. All [[human beings]] with the exception of [[hermaphrodites]] (people with a congenital deformity that causes them to have both male and female genitalia) are born with a [[Reproductive organs|reproductive system]] that is heterosexual by nature. We are either [[male]] or [[female]], what is also reflected in [[Natural order]]. We have sexual feelings only because of chemical and other processes that are rooted in our procreative heterosexual design. Thus, a male 'sexual orientation' toward a female (or vice versa) is self-evidently normal and natural. By contrast, a male-to-male or female-to-female 'orientation' is self-evidently abnormal and unnatural, in fact it is a [[sexual disorientation]]. For homosexuality to be equivalent to heterosexuality, it would need to be rooted in its own homosexual [[physiology]].

In reality, homosexuality is nothing more than same-gender disoriented conduct among people who are innately and unalterably heterosexual in form. Homosexuality is thus biologically (and to varying degrees [[moral]]ly) equivalent to [[pedophilia]], [[Sadomasochism|sado-masochism]], [[bestiality]] and many other forms of [[deviant behavior]], or behavior that deviates from the normal design-based function of the [[human being]]<ref name="Lively2009">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=Scott Lively |edition=1 |publisher=Veritas Aeterna Press |place=Springfield, MA |year=2009 |pages=101-3 |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow/Redeeming%20the%20Rainbow%20smaller%20file%20for%20e-mail.pdf }}</ref>, as can be shown by [[scientific]] device of [[gedankenexperiment|thought experiment]].

In reality, homosexuality is nothing more than same-gender disoriented conduct among people who are innately and unalterably heterosexual in form. Homosexuality is thus biologically (and to varying degrees [[moral]]ly) equivalent to [[pedophilia]], [[Sadomasochism|sado-masochism]], [[bestiality]] and many other forms of [[deviant behavior]], or behavior that deviates from the normal design-based function of the [[human being]]<ref name="Lively2009">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=Scott Lively |edition=1 |publisher=Veritas Aeterna Press |place=Springfield, MA |year=2009 |pages=101-3 |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow/Redeeming%20the%20Rainbow%20smaller%20file%20for%20e-mail.pdf }}</ref>, as can be shown by [[scientific]] device of [[gedankenexperiment|thought experiment]].

==Sexual preference determined by birth==

==Sexual preference determined by birth==