Based on my morals it is but, i base my morals on the bible. If you base your morals and values on something else than no.

The question needs to be a little more specific.

Morally wrong is all too perspective. "homosexuality" doesn't require you to have sexual relations with other men, rather just find your own sex more attractive.

I can't say I approve of the sexual relations business

But who am i to say what others can and can't do.

Shit, if we waited for everyones approval we would get nowhere.

Arguing for this on a moral ground is irrelavent, as each person has their own moral and ethics. For example a christian telling an atheist of homosexual orientation that God forbids the act, will mean nothing to the atheist.

If we look at it from a biological perspective it is much easier for both sides to put points across that the other can understand. So let us consider sexuality. In terms of simple biology we are created to reproduce. Thus we are biologicaly created to be attracted to the opposite sex, same sex cannot produce offspring. Therefore if an individual is born with homosexual tendancies he/she can technically be defined as having a disorder. Since it goes against our biology. Just because this is a disorder, that does not allow discrimination. That does not change the fact that it is a disorder and should be treated as such.

If we accept homosexuality as something normal, then logically we should also accept other sexual disorders. Such as beastiality, paedophilia etc. The danger of homosexuality can be seen in simple statistics:

Lesbians are 19 times more likely than heterosexual women to have had syphilis, twice as likely to suffer from genital warts, and four times as likely to have scabies (New England Journal of Medicine 317:973,1987).

Life expectancy of homosexual men and women without AIDS is about 33 years shorter than that of the heterosexual (Cameron, Playfair, Wellum, The Homosexual Lifespan, Family Research Institute, Feb 14, 1992).

A recent study of Massachusetts teenagers, published in the American Journal of Public Health (Anne H. Faulkner and Kevin Cranston, "Correlates of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in a Random Sample of Massachusetts High School Students," February 1998, p. 264) discovered that self-identified gays were:

nine times more likely to have reported using alcohol on a daily basis;

six times more likely to report having recently used cocaine than their heterosexual counterparts;

nineteen times more likely to report having used cocaine on ten or more occasions per month;

five times more likely to report having used other illegal drugs, including cocaine, twenty or more times in their lives;

nearly seven times more likely to report ever having injected an illegal drug;

fifty percent more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to have considered committing suicide.

Another point to clear up is the misconception that the church and most catholics are homophobic. The Church is, however, opposed to homosexual activity -- doing sexual things with someone of the same sex. This opposition comes not out of condemnation, but out of love and concern for the persons involved.

http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html

Opps forgot to add the link!

Man has a purpose for which he was created. On the issue of sexuality I think it is rather obvious how man was designed to function by looking at the plumbing. We have even taking this concept and brought into other fields like plumbing and electrical. Were we speak of male and female connectors. No contractor is going to connect two things together with two male connectors or two female connectors; it doesn't happen because they were not designed to function that may. I think we has humans instinctively recognize this concept and to deny it is folly.

However in the debate on homosexuality I think there is a middle ground that is almost always missed. Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason (str.org) has just written an excellent article on this forgotten point. I've linked it for consideration because I think it is something that needs to be remember by both sides in this debate.

Well if we use the classical definition of moral I think we would have to say, maybe.

As it stands now this is one of the question our culture is wrestling with right now. Should homosexual behavior be part of the mores of our culture or is it outside of our mores and therefore judged to be wrong by our culture. As it stands right now the majority thinks it's wrong, but that could change.

However, I think the greater question is; is it actually wrong as opposed to the majority just thinking it's wrong. Is it contrary to the ethos? or to put it another way; is it unethical? to answer that requires knowing the universals of our existence and not just taking an opinion poll. Because, how many of us in our lifetime have thought we were right only to latter find out we were actually wrong.

You see it doesn't matter what we think about something, only the way it actually is. So if we say homosexuality is right and it turns out that reality is different, then we're wrong and so is homosexuality. That's what makes something right or wrong, it's correspondence to reality, not our opinion and hence not the societies agreed upon mores.

So then what is ultimate reality? How you answer that question determines how you answer the question of this debate. Is the cosmos all there is, ever was and ever will be, to quote Carl Sagan. Or is there something that transcends the cosmos and therefore defines the cosmos. If there is, then right and wrong are determined by conformity to it's character and nature. So, to put it another way; something is right when it corresponds to ultimate reality.

So in closing let me say this; You will never find the answer to this question by looking at the particulars of our universe. You need the big picture, you need to know the universals of reality

Proof that being gay is wrong.

Firstly it goes against nature and secondly it will physiically and mentally harm the society in a lot of ways.

Imagine two male parents adopted a son that is 2 years old and the two dads brought the son up.

When the son see a family picture of a normal family he might think why does my mum have so much MUSCLES ?

When that kid grows up in that homosexual family, he will be deprived from the motherly love which all children in this world should have. You can't have two dads, it will be embarassing for a kid to admit it to his friends and teachers if he had two dads.

That kid will feel abnormal and utterly disgraced when he found out about the truth that his parents aren't normal and he was adopted.

Imagine the hurt and the pain that poor child will feel when he realized the cruel truth...

Homosexuality might be right to some but it the majourity of the people condemned homosexuality as it is wrong in the very first place.

If you oppose nature, you might as well oppose everything.

Your life is as good as ruined.

Think carefully if you're about to engage in homosexual activicties.

You might contract STD's D":

Certainly it is.

Super wrong..im not a fanatical religous zealot im just a new father who pays attention to the degradation of humanity.putting your penis in another mans anus is not natural and is not healthy at all.I dont promote backwards evolution i dont care how much i like Elton John.We are suffering from a wave of young homosexuals in my town and its sad to see the youth travelling down such a wrong path following such a weak trend. im sure scientific info will surface in the future that will probably link all the chemical abuses the parents underwent decades ago and the genetically modiifed foods the children were raised on as culprits in this sad phase of humanity..

Please Read Just the first paragraph! This is the truth, like it or not.

http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html

It is morally, spiritually and biologically wrong. Period. I am not against the human beings who are not straight. I am just against their approach to Life and Love.

It's wrong

Put it this way.........if some guy has sex with animals, he's a freak? A wierdo? Disgusting right????Its not right, its absolutely wrong. So is men having sex with other men.

(I'm making this argument for the sake of a balanced debate, not because I believe it.)

Homosexuality is an aberration - whether it's psychologically rooted or genetic, it causes people to behave in a way they weren't designed to. Society marginalises gays, and this can lead to them being disturbed and unhappy and even criminal. The world wouldn't lose anything if all gay people became straight.

OMG homos are wrong they are like the devils sons how can they fuck each other in the ass and give each other head thats just wrong just thinking about it is just horrible.

Personal life choices or genetic disposition should never be morally wrong. People are entitled to live their lives as they see fit. Morality is subjective.

it's morally wrong to tell a free spirited human what is wrong.

The word moral is so subjective that is means the same thing to just ask, "Is homosexuality right or wrong?" Bringing morality into it just confuses the intention of the question. Also, discussing what our bodies were "designed" for implies a designer (god). Asking how god views anything is ridiculous because you either a) believe everything in the bible so there is little room for debate or b) have created your own neo-conservative idea of God that's so subjective that it just turns into whatever you want it to be.

I voted NOPE because it's a silly question and needs to be more specific.

It's astounding to me that this debate even exists. As a homosexual I find it odd that my very existence seems to be an abominable nuisance, a danger even, to certain groups of people.

I am still waiting for arguments that indicate that homosexuality, in and of itself, is harmful to those who practice it. I am still waiting for the explanation as to what harm it does to the surrounding society, especially when it is legal and sanctioned with marriage, adoption rights, and other legal protections and promotions.

Noone has ever been killed by homosexuality, noone has ever fallen dead in the streets upon seeing two men or two women kiss each other. I have yet to be notified of an instance in which two members of the same sex making love has caused catastrophe.

So long as the relationships are consensual, loving, caring, safe, and stable (the same goes for straight relationships) I feel pretty secure with the idea that I am doing nothing wrong, that I am nothing wrong, and that my contribution to society is no more positive or negative then the next person's.

Some say homosexuality is against god, my gods say it is a-okay.

Some say homosexuality is against nature, it's practiced by a number of birds and mammals to the benefit of themselves and their young.

Some say homosexuals are concerned mainly with sex, I'd like to think we're not the only ones (as the nearly 6 billion people on this planet can atest to).

whenever these stupid debates (like this one) comes up, I want you to replace the owrds homo, fag, whatever to black. So read the question as so: Is being black morally wrong?

Just because someone is GAY doesn't make them any less of a person. They deserve the same rights and privileges as anyone of us, which includes marriage.

If anyone of moron asked a question like "is being black morally wrong" you would be labeled a racist and have Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on you so fast your head would spin, but it's ok to say it about gays. So no, it's not morally wrong the same as being black isn't morally wrong.

It amazes me that in the 21st century, prejudice and racism has shifted from blacks to gays. And yes, being prejudice twoards gays is being racist. As my English teacher once told me, "the only race is the human race".

Homosexuality is a natural phenomenon: people are born and some are gay. Nothing has been "tinkered with". As proof that it's not a "social invention", we can observe other members of the animal kingdom who also have the incidence of homosexuality within their populations. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_displaying_homosexual_behavior

and the links therein.

It can't conceivably be condemned as "unnatural" when it's natural. Add to that the fact that even if it was a social construction, that alone wouldn't make it bad.

Nope, if the homosexual thinks they are being morally wrong by being gay, then I guess to them it's morally wrong, to me my morals say it's not wrong. So. Morals of each person differ. I don't have a choice to change someones morals. They can do what they want

See This Debate not because it is the same but because there are some references to the morality of homosexuality mixed in with the discussion about sin.

Homosexuality cannot be morally wrong. As one poster urged, sexuality is not an action; to be homosexual is not at the same time to be homosexually active. Homosexuality (sexuality for that matter) has no moral aesthetic.

It can't go against nature, as human thought IS nature. Also lots of animals are homosexual as well.

No --

A. Homosexuality is not even a moral question. It is at best a social transgression and has no bearing on empathy, guilt, and other moral manifestations. Opposition of support of Homosexuality is about as moral a matter as opposition or support for monogamy, or Chinese checkers. It's social and cultural.

B. Nope. "It goes against our nature," does not only commit the naturalistic fallacy but begs the question of who's nature? It certainly doesn't go against the nature of homosexuals :P

Love has nothing to do with gender. Let people choose to love who the want!

I love the "it goes against nature!" argument.

What is nature? Are we only here to reproduce, by means of a man and a woman? Then what is everything else for? Why even debate, online, on a computer, with electricity, in a house, in a town of people? Why not live in the woods and breed with someone, stopping only to eat and rest?

What is art for? What is technology, sports, cities, or anything else human-made for?

Just because men and women have interlocking parts, doesn't mean that people are mandated to utilize them that way.

Many animals engage in sexual pleasure with members of the same sex, especially many primates. They are natural, so isn't that nature?

Just because the thought of something is gross, doesn't make it unnatural or morally wrong.

And for all of you calling homosexuality a choice, doesn't that make heterosexuality a choice as well? Just like having or not having sex or a relationship with anyone is a choice.

And who is being hurt here for it to be called morally wrong?

Personally, myself, I would never have sex with another man. But, there are gay men that feel the same way about women. Who am I to tell them that they cant do what they want, it hurts nobody. Even if the strictest bible interpretations are right there is some judgment day at hand or whatever, it still doesn't affect me.

I should think it would depend on whose moral standard you're trying to justify. I can certainly understand why some people my still labor under that idea, however, in the face of medical findings on the homosexual brain throughout the largest curve of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I cannot quite comprehend why anyone would think that way at this late date. The differences found between the heterosexual and homosexual brain prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there is a center of the brain that is not the same. Hence, facts would dictate that morality is not in question here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj2-_tFXXT4

People don't choose to be gay! If people are saying its wrong to be born gay, its like saying its wrong to be born a certain race.

Also how is natural birth can possibliy be morally wrong?

Nope! What's wrong about homosexuality? I think that it is a personal choice.

Marriage is about union of two souls, not two genders. As long as the couples love each other, no matter they are a gay or a lesbian, they do have their rights to get married, no one should have stop them. Although homosexuals can't reproduce, they could adopt those homeless children as their child.

The reason why some people who think that homosexuality is morally wrong is because it is against their religion but do they ever think about others? Must others gonna be same as them. No one has the rights to force others to do things because in this 21st century, everyone do have their freedom!

Well, dolphins are sometimes gay. God apparently made everything but humans were apparently the only ones capable of sin due to that whole apple job a&e;pulled. Something like that anyways.

If dolphins can have gay sex without incurring the wrath of god, I'm sure it should be no different for humans.

Is heterosexuality morally wrong? Seems fair enough of a question for me to ask.

This argument is quite simple. Either homosexuality is a choice, or it is something you are born with. Having never made the choice to be heterosexual, I believe it is a natural phenomenon that people are born with. Perhaps it is God's way of limiting population growth. To those that believe it is a choice, did YOU ever choose to be heterosexual?

If it is not a choice, then there is no point arguing the morality of it. Morality involves choices you make. It would be like saying being black is immoral. It's simply idiotic.

I believe that their's nothing wrong with loving another person, even if it's with the same sex. and for those of you who think otherwise... shame on you!

why are gays bad. as far as i can tell it is because either god said so or because people have an underlying fear against them. gays are not hurting anybody by being homosexual, so it doesn't make any sense.

It all depends on your point of view I guess. My view though is homosexuals may bother people but certainly never cause any harm to people. And even though something bothers certain people doesn`t make it necessarily make it bad.

Although it is against human preservation, it is not arguable to say that it's against human nature -- people aren't taught to be gay, they simply are. Some people are gay, and some aren't. Plus, it's not hurting anyone, so what's morally wrong about it?

Love is not based on gender.

As long as no one is harmed in the process, mentally or physically, then it is not morally wrong.

There's nothing morally wrong with homosexuality in itself...to each his/her own. What IS morally wrong however...is the raging flamers...the walking talking stereotypes that have a completely unnecessary high level of flamboyance and femininity. Those types of people just make me freakin' uncomfortable.

Morality means whatever we want it to mean.

"According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others."

The question at hand must be what one considers to be moral? Every person obviously will have a different opinion on this matter, however the sheer ignorance of many to compare homosexuality with acts performed that reduce other peoples quality of life such as violence, rape etc. deeply upsets me.

Why should heterosexual people be encouraged to follow their natural desires resulting in happiness, yet homosexuals be expected to avoid their natural desires and live a life of misery?

An immoral act is one that goes against another's personal beliefs and has a direct impact on their life as a result. Such as stealing etc. Homosexuality does not and has been around for thousands of years, yet has been ignored by the sheer volume of heterosexuals due to homosexuals being unable to reproduce. It cannot be caught, anyone who believes such and similar rubbish should perhaps talk to someone who actually is experiencing the reality in this world of being gay!

Nope, sucking people's blood from their neck while they sleep is morally wrong.

Morally wrong or not, I hear it can be painful.

Not when its 2 hot girls!

I find it misleading to say its "against nature." To claim something is against nature because it is something you would not do or find distasteful is demonstrably untrue, as there are several cases of homosexuality throughout the animal kingdom. Bonobos (one of our closest relatives evolutionarily) are very active sexually and engage in both heterosexual and homosexual activities. It is also not a "choice," as many people (who think homosexuality is wrong) tend to think, and should be accepted as much as the other millions of differences between individual humans.

Homosexuality is not a choice, it's (even proven to be) a genetic factor. The environment plays no role in the realization or establishment of homosexuality but it does help or harm a gay person depending on the circumstances.

On a broader topic: why would anyone even consider this to be morally wrong?

As an atheist, I can ask similar questions about Christians. My belief is that the bible is complete bullshit and worthless, and that those who follow Christianity are just too stupid or weak to accept the logic around them. Though I may feel this way, I would never consider their beliefs or actions as something that is morally wrong. Similarly, do I hate blacks for being black, or hispanics for having a hispanic heritage? No.

The narrow-mindedness of the human race is absolutely atrocious. To see so many people fall in to this safe comfort zone (misquoting the Bible and denouncing homosexuality as a sinful choice) truly hurts me.

As someone from a European heritage, I must say that America is lacking the sense of compassion for one another. Though it is impossible to find a country where "peace" is wanted by all, people must strive to better the human race. To deny something as evident as homosexuality -- or to demean homosexuals by claiming that their actions are sinful -- is heartless and ignorant.

To all of you who clicked "Yes" for this debate, you should honestly be aware that you are not only closing yourself off from a broad mindset, but you are also demeaning nearly 25% of the population.

Homosexuality certainly doesn't go against nature, even if you assume there does exist a 'designer'. There are many clear examples of homosexuality throughout the animal kingdom. At least 450 vertebrate species engage in some form of homosexual behavior.(Giraffes, bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, gray whales, and West Indian manatees all engage in homosexual orgies.)

no, you have a hole in your back, and this is very "natural"

How does it 'go against nature'? Are homosexuals unnatural?

In the following I base my argument on the catholic church, the reason for this is because this question concerns morals, and ethics. What better source for morals and ethics than the church.

The catholic church teaches that is it completely natural to be sexually attracted toward a member of the opposite sex, however, it looks at acting upon that desire to be sinful and immoral. To quote wikipedia:

Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior or attraction between people of the same sex, or to a sexual orientation

Therefore we can look at the question technically and interpret it to mean: Is being attracted to a member of the same sex morally wrong? Which, based on the teachings of the church, it is not morally wrong.

Though I believe this debate is.