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By the same argument, there shouldn't be a straight community, with institutions and laws and religion that assume it to be the default, the tabula rasa of humanity.
Really, you're just arguing against the fact we exist within a historical context. You can try and cut it away - except! Oops! In doing so, you just added yet more history to the pile!
Well I'm not really arguing against anything, the question was what moral do I hold that I don't think most people agree with.
Yes, that's basically what I said. I would prefer we live in a world where sexual orientation is no more prevalent a feature to define someone than their hair color. I wish there didn't need to be laws for or against gay marriage, or rights for specific types of people over others. But this is reality and not a hopeful fantasy, so again I understand the the need for the LGBTQ community, and laws to protect and represent the people part of it. But at the same time, I personally don't think anyone should be celebrated (or mocked) for being part of it.
I get what you're saying, but reducing it down to a thing we have because we need it is... overly clinical? Not particularly hopeful, anyway. Even if sexuality didn't have the historical baggage that it does, I think things would still trend towards a community. People form a sense of shared identity over things. It's what people do.
That's true I suppose. I may be overly cynical (and clinical) when it comes to such things, I think that stems from the extremely stifling household I grew up in, where my parents wanted me to be religious, wanted everyone to know I was religious, and wanted me to let everyone know I was religious, as if I was a lucky one to find salvation. At some point the browbeating wore off, and I realized whatever opinions and beliefs I held didn't make me more or less than anyone else, and that no one else's would make them any more or less than the average human to me. (So long as their opinions and beliefs don't bring harm to others, that is.)