[Rob29693]

It’s not a double standard, because your analogy is false. Polygamy is a cultural practice. We do not extend legal recognition to polygamous arrangments for a number of reasons, the most important of which is that it’s widely considered to be prone to instability and inherently exploitative as a social structure (witness the situation of women in many Islamic countries). You liken being gay to polygamy by claiming that homosexuality is a ‘type of behavior’ which is ‘not inborn.’ How do you know that it isn’t? Are you a geneticist? What’s your evidence? Even if homosexuality is the result of environmental factors and not genetics, it is not experienced as chosen (your own church acknowledges this, by the way). Homosexuality is not a cultural practice or “behavior.” It is an orientation, which may or may not manifest itself in behavior. A celibate gay priest, a 15-year-old virgin, a closeted man married to a woman, a promiscuous party-boy and a man in a long-term monogamous gay relationship are all equally gay, even though their behaviors are radically different. And unlike polygamy (at least as our culture views it), gay relationships are not inherently unstable or exploitative. Now here’s a question for you: Why do some Christians refuse to entertain extending to other minorities the same civil rights that they themselves already enjoy? Religion is a type of behavior that is not inborn, yet some Christians claim that homosexuality is a ‘chosen behavior’ and disdain gays for it. Is this a double standard?

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Name : Rob29693, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Gay, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 32, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Filmmaker, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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