http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/11/05/697/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/11/05/697/comment-page-1/#comment-5749 Antaine Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:05:17 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/11/05/697/#comment-5749 Homosexuality is not a sin just because religious people say so. It is not a sin at all.
There is nothing abnormal or sinful about sodomy.
It is a very enjoyable part of a healthy sex life. Sodomy and homosexuality cannot be synonymous since men can also sodomise women. Indeed,many women are partial to the practice.
Religious mores can, should and must only apply to those willing to be subject to them. Dissenters cannot, should not and must not be discriminated against, vilified or harmed (as the religious books would have us do) for not accepting the tenets or morality of any religious sect.
Religion must be an entirely voluntary choice if the belief is to have any meaning. One should believe what one believes because one wants to, not because one is compelled to. Similarly, religion should not and should not be allowed to attempt to compel others to accept its dogma nor to treat such people as will not comply with any the less respect with which they would treat a co-religionist.
The obsession of religion with human sexuality has always perplexed me. Human sexuality expressed through mutual consent by people capable of informed consent is a perfectly normal part of the human condition, whether the couplings be hetero- or homosexual. Any sexual act between such consenting adults (i.e. capable of informed consent) which is based on feelings of love or a desire for mutual pleasure is entirely acceptable, relative to the environment in which they take place, i.e. in a committed union or between single adults.
The propensity of religion to depict sex as an undesirable or sinful practice only to be “endured” for the purposes of procreation is, in my humble opinion, rather scary and creepy. As well as ignoring the basic urges to which human beings are subject, in the diversity of the forms in which these urges are expressable.

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