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Is Opposition to Sexual Preference Discrimination?

By Byron Ellis - July 24, 2008

Sexual preference advocates attempt to use the civil rights movement to buttress their argument against opposition to their behavioral tendencies. Racial discrimination, however, is based on innate racial characteristics. Opposition to sexual preference is predicated on individual behavior.

Racial characteristics are physical aspects of appearance that are generally hereditary. The physical appearance associated with humans is detached from behaviors. However, humans endowed with different physical characteristics can internalize different types of behaviors, including sexual preference.

Unlike behaviors, physical characteristics are difficult to change. Physical characteristics, such as skin color, have been used to purport superiority of one group over another. This approach, called racism, developed a myriad of exclusionary doctrines used to justify slavery, apartheid, segregation, anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, colonialism, and imperialism.

Intention is the most immediate determinant of a person’s behavior. The intention to perform or not to perform a given behavior is a function of the individual’s attitude towards the behavior and the individual’s perception of whether or not important others accept or reject the behavior.

Therefore, it is inappropriate to equate the acceptance or rejection sexual preference behaviors with the acceptance or rejection of racial characteristics; individuals can change behaviors, they cannot change racial characteristics.

Behaviors are choices that individuals make. Racial characteristics are natural endowments based on individual’s heredity.

Thus, preference towards same sex relationship is an individual choice; race is not a choice. Choice embodies the ability to suffer regret and change behavior. Individuals choosing same sex relationship can, and have, changed behaviors. The individual ability to change behavior precludes discrimination.

Same sex relationship does not lead to procreation. Hence, it is unnatural. If such relationships were the norm, the likely outcome would be a significant decline in human reproduction.

Many behaviors considered detrimental to society, such as robberies, bearing false witness, murder, and so on are prohibited. Thus, it is fitting to consider if the behavior of sexual preference is beneficial to society. If it is, it should be embraced, if its not it should be rejected. However, it is not a right; rather it is a consequential choice.

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