Age of consent, paedophilia, NAMBLA etc.

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I can sympathize with someone who was born with homosexuality AS LONG AS .......


Yes I changed Pedo with Homo - however these arguments are very, very reminiscent of the bad old days when LGBT were 'treated' for their 'sickness' with things like institutionalization, and being treated to electroshock therapy. Hell I can point you to forums that discuss us LGBT with the same arguments being presented here.

Important difference: homosexuality involves people who can give consent, pedophilia does not. You seem to be assuming all morality is about things like prudery whereas mine is about whether a person is violated or not by their mental ability (and thus includes things like whether or not children should be allowed to sign contracts). If you want to challenge my moral & ethical outlook the way you have then it would be more accurate to compare it to adult siblings or even say a father marrying an adult daughter who is able to give full consent (which I'd have a response for, btw, but that's beside the point).

IOW, what I actually said and that it's not based on the Bible or slut shaming but rather on if a child can give informed consent and that sex with one who can't give consent (heterosexual, homosexual) is abuse and exploitation at best and one I compare to exploiting children in sweat shops where they're equally disempowered and not mentally able to stand up for themselves and the psychological & social forces brought against them. If someone can convince me that children can be expected (as opposed to say 1 in a million) to give informed consent I'd change my mind, though in that case I'd push for children (at whatever age) to become full adults in society with the right to vote, sign contracts, go to the bathroom any time they wanted (not currently allowed in many schools), buy their own guns, get a driver's license (they may need specially designed cars, however), and everything else adults do. Because it's not prudish sexual ethics that's the key feature here as you seem to be assuming but rather the ethics of free will and accountability.

I've never seen an argument against homosexuality that was like that....unless you count that we're possessed by demons and therefore have no free will.