[jluetjen]

Originally posted by kang
Do you feel the same way about gay animals?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6066606.stm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html


This recent article about Haggard is very interesting. Here are a couple of quotes from it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_us/haggard_therapy_debate

"Haggard is Exhibit A of how people can't change their sexual orientation," said Wayne Besen, a gay-rights activist and author. "With all that he had to lose — a wife, children, a huge church — he had to be who he was in the end. He couldn't pray away the gay."

NARTH's views are considered fringe by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Both declared in the 1970s that homosexuality was not a mental disorder and does not warrant a "cure."

From the National Geographic Article:
"Yet scientists say we should be wary of referring to animals when considering what's acceptable in human society. For instance, infanticide, as practiced by lions and many other animals, isn't something people, gay or straight, generally approve of in humans."

Certain chimps practice canabilism -- should we be considering that too? Lots of animals practice polygamy too, does that mean that we should? I doubt it.

Ultimately we have to take a lot of this stuff for a grain of salt. Animals are animals, and humans (while biologically grouped in the same phylum with other animals) are of a completely different sort due to their levels of reasoning and self awareness.