If you turn to nature, many same sex pairings adopt young for the betterment of their survival. It then makes sense that childless or same sex couples could aid in childrearering when the mother isn't available or dead. Notice how some gays have a instinct to have a kid? That's not just bullshit, it's simply how nature works and the amount of times people have told me gayness is unnatural in a secular sense, it never really worked. Science time and time again always strives to be objective in it's evidence unlike religion which often arrives on abstract explanations on existence.
So what sense does it make to be homophobic or even conservative if someone identified as atheist? Gays just exist. They weren't groomed into their attraction nor did they choose to like the same sex, they just are. Just as life just is, so are gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals (which I realized I am now after years of being denial). There's no point in trying to overly justify the hate others have for liking who they want to like? Don't straights have no control in their desires? And no, needing some holy book to tell you sex is wrong won't help. People sin anyway so there's no use in bringing that up.
I find most of your argument to be begging the question. That is, your argument relies on an answer to the topic currently being debated, i.e., homosexuality is natural and normal. I want to state that I previously echoed many of your sentiments and have been a lifelong supporter of LGB, but am currently rethinking much of what I knew about it.
- "They weren't groomed into their attraction nor did they choose to like the same sex, they just are."
There is definitely evidence that children who are either, 1) raised by LGB are more likely to be LGB, and 2) molested by same-sex adults are more likely to be LGB.
The idea that babies are born gay or straight is nonsensical to me, though I do believe at some point "sexual orientation" becomes
fixed, so to speak. You don't think there's a chance that
something sexual done to someone at a young age can affect their sexuality?
- "People sin anyway so there's no use in bringing that up."
Of course there is. Murder isn't the same as stealing a candy bar. Why would we not discuss sins and their harms to society?
- "That's not just bullshit, it's simply how nature works and the amount of times people have told me gayness is unnatural in a secular sense, it never really worked."
I would say that your argument here supports the same-sex attraction being a choice or an unnatural proclivity since it's overriding the innate desire to rear young. You also skip past nefarious means as being the reasoning for raising kids. I don't see why gays should need to be married as something more than a flex to be "normal" when there's no precedence for it.
Why would ADHD be a mental disorder but men boning dudes only isn't? It seems politics is the only reason it was removed from the DSM to begin with. I also think the "born this way" argument lends itself to normalizing pedophilia, which seems to be the goal of Queer Theory/gender ideology movements right now. Given they've completely hijacked the LGB altogether, it seems pertinent to discuss this alongside one another.
The more I listen to arguments from gays, the more I kind of think they're mostly a bunch of narcissistic, entitled assholes. I also don't think actual homosexuality is seen in the animal kingdom as much as people pretend. I think it was something only like goats that they'd observed actually having some sort of true gay relationships.