Acquiunk wrote:Genes do not serve the group either, they are just there. They survive because the confer an advantage of an individual or are neutral in their effect and are passed on as part of the general genetic inheritance of an individual. Homosexuality does not mean that an individual can not reproduce. We are a bio-cultural species and there may, and often are, very good cultural/social reason for an individual to have descendants, despite their sexual preference. It was not until very recently that societies took the burden of caring for the elderly from the family and made it a public responsiblity. In most traditional societies it was a persons children and grand children who had the responsiblity for caring for them in their old age.
Genes do serve the group, the group is the one who through environmental necessity triggered the genes (powers that be) to arrange in an adaptive function.
Scientists believe there is a gene that causes two individuals of the same sex to become attracted. Is that not nature telling us that humans are "controlled" not only by their own thoughts but by a chemical response? Humans are united in diversity? The fact that both sexes can be homosexual only cements it's place in human nature.
...or even a spiritual calling that transcends nature.
Love is subject to which code of ethics one may compare it to...
People interpret/warp the standard to fit their own code... This is where intolerance and prejudice becomes hatred.
There is this diversity in all things.
Though we are all created equal, we are made and formed "uniquely" by the same creator.
