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Social justice argument #1: ‘Homosexuality is inborn.’ shows logical reasons why it has not been proven yet, that homosexuality has been inborn, and why even if it has been proven to be inborn that it isn’t necessarily a good thing.
First, “inborn” and “normal” are not necessarily the same. Even if homosexuality is someday proven to be inborn, inborn does not necessarily mean normal. Any number of defects or handicaps, for example, may be inborn, but we’d hardly call them normal for that reason alone. Why should we be compelled to call homosexuality normal, just because it may be inborn?
Second, inborn tendencies towards certain behaviors (like homosexuality) do not make those behaviors moral. Studies in the past fifteen years indicate a variety of behaviors may have their roots in genetics or biology. In 1983 the former Director of the National Council on Alcoholism reported on a number of chemical events that can produce alcoholism;20 in 1991, the City of Hope Medical Center found a certain gene present in 77 percent of their alcoholic patients.21 Obesity and violent behavior are now thought to be genetically influenced,22 and even infidelity, according to research reported in Time, may be in our genes!23 Surely we’re not going to say that obesity, violence, alcoholism and adultery are legitimate because they were inherited. So it is with homosexuality. Whether inborn or acquired, it is still, like all sexual contact apart from marriage, immoral.
