Actually James, medically speaking sodomy is unhealthy and dirty, and especially when combined with oral sex. I mean honestly, what health practitioner would recommend sucking on a used toilet brush, which is the equivalent. That goes for heterosexual anal sex as well.
The body simply wasn't designed for that purpose, which makes it an unnatural act.
However, that is a personal choice and like most I have absolutely no issue with what consenting adults do in private, whether it concerns same sex, relatives, animals, dead bodies or blow up dolls. Nor do I have any objections to same sex couples having a legally recognised relationship which gives them the same benefits as marriage but without the name.
What I do object to is the teaching of our children that this is normal and natural, when it is neither. Biologically it's not natural and socially, due to its low incidence, it's not normal, based on the definition of normal.

We have an absolute right to demand of all other folk that they conform to the standard and belief of the dominant culture!

Thus all our Muslim migrants should be obliged to burn their Qoran, and take up a bible and Christianity!

Why? Because Christians were told by God that their God was the one true God and his teachings were the only truth! And they BELIEVE that to be true!

Conversely, when we migrate to a country where the dominant culture is Islamic? Their rules and mandated law must apply!

For exactly the same reasons outlined above! Along with a carved in stone moral code!

Let's not pussyfoot around with this stuff. Just as you can't be half pregnant! You can't be half committed and have two bob each way!

Saying flat earth stuff like, if there is a gay gene? And tantamount to saying if the world is round?

Even so, all left handed folk must use their right hand as if it were their dominant hand, because God made the bulk of us right handed.

Therefore it follows that lefties are delusional or have a mental illness making them believe left handed aberrations in a small percentile of the population is normal?

Nonetheless, they need to give up this minority practise if they want to marry or be accorded the same rights in law, property and inheritance as the rest of us normal folk!

Say no to not normal asking for the same rights the right handed community have.

Until or unless they give up what seems a common delusion and get with the program!

After all, we are the dominant culture AND WE WILL DECIDE what is acceptable practise and moral! And without exception or alteration!

Jawohl mien Herr?
Alan B.

If this is an example of a philosophically rigorous argument then the UWA philosophy department has clearly failed to teach or encourage this chap as to what it takes to be a serious philosopher.
It is little more than a series of naive straw-man assertions.
And the doozie of the month must surely go to the statement - female to female sex is all about hating males.

The body wasn't designed for such purpose, yet same sex attraction have few other options! Other than always, always using a condom, pre-surgery hygiene and before and after mouth gargle or gender reassignment replete with H.R.T?

[However, unprotected annual and or oral sex between hetro couples, common practise in some cultures, as a method of birth control?]

Or Brain surgery to change the attraction to conform with the biology, rather than today's common practise. Reassigning the biology to conform with the sexual attraction!

Doable in day clinics using precisely implanted micro-fibres and electrical stimulation to effectively burn out the inappropriately firing sex drive motor centre or centres in the basil ganglia?

Takes around a year to fit as being and feeling normal?

If only to satisfy those whose unalterable mindset, commands normality as germane? Or any part of the debate!?
Alan B.

Alan, the fact that some women, unable to access contraceptives, are forced to choose the lesser of two evils, and endures anal sex is no reason to say it is natural or normal. If I had to choose between that and bringing yet another starving child into the world, probably to die under my eyes, I would do the same.
That's doesn't mean women wouldnt infinitely prefer the natural option.

Why should we judge what consenting adults hetero
or gay do in private? That is none of our business.
What does that have to do
with their right to be equal under the law of the
land. And how can such a small percentage of our
population affect the rest of our marriages. I remember
the stories when Catholic families were not allowed to
go into churches of other denominations or be friends
with Protestants. When inter-racial marriages were not
allowed. And now we are being told all sorts of horrors
regarding same-sex couples by people who probably don't
even know any gay couples.

Will we ever learn? Surely we're all entitled to be
treated equally under the law of the land. Especially if
people do pay taxes (which churches apparently don't).