Dare I dip my toe in the realm of faith yet one more time?  Yes, methinks, I shall do just that. . .

It behooves us to ponder the exact reason so many religions vehemently focus on the immorality of homosexuality, on the evil and vile nature of such people.

Already we have documented such behaviors in more than 500 species.  These are not aberrant exceptions to the natural rule; on the contrary, they are predictable and expected relationships across a broad spectrum of creatures.

Add to that this fact: we now have observational evidence of such activities in more than 1,500 species.  Excluding humans, that is.

Yet it goes without saying that far too many mythologies and their followers declare homosexuality a sin, a moral choice as though they themselves awoke one day to decide they would henceforth be heterosexual.  But that’s another debate for another time.

The quandary I see is simple: Do these great many beasts represent a moral choice in the animal kingdom?  Is homosexuality in so many other species representative of the same devilishness proclaimed as fault for my very sexuality?

Careful how you answer, poppets, if such a thing you believe.

Dare you eat the flesh of a monster who has chosen to live a life of sin?  Dare you clothe yourself with the skins of such dirty beings?  Dare you consume the lactic excretions of this kind of filth?  Dare you take your children to see such carnally despicable monsters at the local zoo?  Dare I go on?

It goes without saying that those professing homosexuality as a sin go right on ignoring the evidence around the globe.  I suspect the problem has little to do with anything save this: Were we to admit so many kinds of creatures naturally engage in homosexuality, we too would be forced to admit its natural place in the realm of humans; otherwise, were we to proclaim it still as a moral choice made by those consciously choosing to do wrong instead of right, we bequeath upon a great many species the ability to think, the spirituality needed to comprehend a decision that ultimately will doom them to eternal damnation.

So which is it?  Do these thousands of species practice this very thing we call evil simply because they are as we are… spiritual, able to know right from wrong, and able to choose between the two?  Or are they merely acting out a natural condition that exists in more beings upon this globe than can be numbered?