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{{Homosexuality}}

{{Homosexuality}}

The gay rights movement seeks to promote acceptance of [[homosexuality]] and recognition of their rights to sexual/romantic expression and legal recognition.

The '''gay "rights"''' movement seeks to promote [[homosexuality]] and give it special consideration or favoritism.

The gay rights movement argues for tolerance of homosexuality by arguing that either,  

The gay "rights" movement demands new rights or entitlements for homosexuality by arguing that either,  

# Homosexuality is an immutable trait, and discriminating against immutable traits is wrong (e.g., race discrimination);

# Homosexuality is somehow an immutable trait, and discriminating against immutable traits is wrong (e.g., race discrimination);

# Homosexuality, if not immutable, is highly correlated with personality; or

# Homosexuality, if not immutable, is highly correlated with personality, and criticism of it is to be censored and labeled as somehow being bigotry; or

# Homosexuality should be respected.  

# Homosexuality is somehow perfectly normal and should be respected, despite [[God]]'s laws against it in the [[Bible]] and scientific device of [[gedankenexperiment|thought experiment]] showing otherwise.  

'Gay rights' are often promoted by [[liberal]]s. Although people should be free to label themselves as they choose<ref name="Rainbow">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=Scott Lively |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow/Redeeming%20the%20Rainbow%20smaller%20file%20for%20e-mail.pdf |pages=47, 161 |quote=We should not, however, discriminate against persons who define themselves as homosexuals. They should be free to label themselves as they choose, no less so than other groups whose beliefs or goals are disapproved by the majority. Indeed, we can compare homosexuals to their chief adversaries, the radical nationalists. Both groups hate each other, and would like to do away with the other.

So called 'Gay rights' are a favored topic of [[liberal]]s, and are based on [[moral relativity]], the idea that there is no absolute Right or Wrong. Although people should be free to label themselves as they choose<ref name="Rainbow">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=Scott Lively |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow/Redeeming%20the%20Rainbow%20smaller%20file%20for%20e-mail.pdf |pages=47, 161 |quote=We should not, however, discriminate against persons who define themselves as homosexuals. They should be free to label themselves as they choose, no less so than other groups whose beliefs or goals are disapproved by the majority. Indeed, we can compare homosexuals to their chief adversaries, the radical nationalists. Both groups hate each other, and would like to do away with the other.

Neither side is embraced by the majority, but both deserve the right to freedom of their beliefs and to freedom of speech within reasonable limits.  

Neither side is embraced by the majority, but both deserve the right to freedom of their beliefs and to freedom of speech within reasonable limits. The rest of us must be willing to tolerate these difficult neighbors to preserve civility for society as a whole.

}}</ref>, from perspective of [[human rights]], assertions about human nature must be empirically provable and they cannot be based on fundamentals and instances that are not methodologically verifiable<ref>{{cite book |title=Menschenrechte: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch |author=Bernd Ladwig et al. |editors=Arnd Pollmann & Georg Lohmann |publisher=J.B. Metzler |place=Stuttgart, Weimar |chapter=2.3 Anthropologie und Naturalismus |year=2012 |url=http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476022714 |pages=220 |isbn=978-3476022714 |quote=page indication is from Slovak 2017 translation |language=German}}</ref>. The self-identification as so called "LGBT+ person" fails this criterion<ref name="Rainbow"/> and is in fact a manifestation of [[Göring's syndrome]].  

}}</ref>, from perspective of [[human rights]], assertions about human nature must be empirically provable and they cannot be based on fundamentals and instances that are not methodologically verifiable<ref>{{cite book |title=Menschenrechte: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch |author=Bernd Ladwig et al. |editors=Arnd Pollmann & Georg Lohmann |publisher=J.B. Metzler |place=Stuttgart, Weimar |chapter=2.3 Anthropologie und Naturalismus |year=2012 |url=http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476022714 |pages=220 |isbn=978-3476022714 |quote=page indication is from Slovak 2017 translation |language=German}}</ref>. The self-identification as so called "LGBT+ person" fails this criterion<ref name="Rainbow"/> and is in fact a manifestation of [[Göring's syndrome]].  

== Support for Gay "Rights" ==

== Support for Gay "Rights" ==

An April 2009 CNN poll showed the public evenly divided over the US military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, with 48% in favor and 47% opposed.<ref>Polling Report http://www.pollingreport.com/civil.htm</ref> Polls consistently show that most people are opposed to same-sex marriage. Thirty states have had a public referendum on same-sex marriage, and all thirty have voted against it.

An April 2009 CNN poll showed the public evenly divided over the US military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, with 48% in favor and 47% opposed.<ref>Polling Report http://www.pollingreport.com/civil.htm</ref> Polls consistently show that most people are opposed to same-sex marriage. Thirty states have had a public referendum on same-sex marriage, and all thirty have voted against it.