I want one good reason that being gay is ok

It's not off-topic at all. Crash's example cuts right to the chase.Under any reasonable system of government you do not need a reason that something is OK to allow it, you need a reason it's not to stop it. The fact that gays want to be gay, and want to have their relationships recognised in law is all the reason that's needed.Since neither of us lives in a Theocracy (thankfully!) your religious opinions on the matter are totally, and utterly, irrelevant and rightly so.

In Australia it is only legal for a man to have sex with a kangaroo if they're drunk.Really. It is.

Wow! There's nothing like words from your imaginary friend to settle an argument. What's that Eggbert? Being gay is ok? Cool, well that settles the argument. It's not off-topic. You're just avoiding the argument. Doesn't exactly make your side look strong.

Mere personal prejudice is also not a reason. Not all Christians join in your prejudice, I have gay Christian friends as one example, Canon Geoffery Jones being a more prominent one. Your opinions on what your imaginary friend thinks are not a basis for the passing of laws restricting others lives. God cannot be in government. His so-called representatives may be, but he cannot be unless he changes his ways and starts proving his existence.This message has been edited by Mr Jack, 07-07-2004 06:45 AM

Apart from Lesbian couples who have children through AI, or Gay couples who find a surragate mother, or gay couples who adopt that is.What about straight couples who get married but don't want to have children? Are they not OK too?

Oh, and:What about old people who are now infertile, should they have to stop having sex? Are their marriages no longer marriages?What about people who choose to get themselves neutered, are they no longer OK?

From the KJV: Genesis 4:5 "for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

But you have been given a reason, time and time again - the same reason it's ok to do anything else: things are ok to do by default.Gays want to do it. That's all the reason that is needed.

Ah, but you didn't say 'gay sex' you said 'being gay'. Being gay in and of itself carries no greater risk than being straight.

Contraceptives fail very occasionally, yes. That's what abortion is for. Yes.

Gay sex is also no more inherently risky than straight sex (remember gay sex is not equivalent to anal sex, no more than straight sex is equivalent to vaginal sex).

No, it isn't. Not in common language usage.

Everything is ok, by default, you need a reason it is not ok.However, a reason: they enjoy it.

Wrong. Society should accept any action that an individual wishes to do as ok, except where there is a strong opposing reason.There is no strong opposing reason in the case of practicing homosexuals.

That is irrelevant, unless God comes dome from heaven and starts walking around he cannot be in government. No, no, yes and no.I believe secular government is the best kind. Secular doesn't mean atheistic, it means religously neutral, so the opinions of your imaginary friend (or a Muslim's, or Hindu's imaginary friends) don't carry any weight. You can be religous and in government. You can express views that come from your religious beliefs, but the source is moot in government. I don't have 'a God' that being the whole point of Atheism, and all.