finally, let's talk a bit about what a homosexual is "for." AEON seems to think that homosexuals are useless from a biological standpoint. we can't naturally reproduce, and are therefore a disadvantage for the species.
let's stop for a moment and first understand that there's no difference bewteen a homosexual and a heterosexual who is infertile from AEONs fierce "natural selection" standpoint.
however, does society have a place for childless adults? does soceity produce more children than it can care for? can a homosexual devote more time to his/her given profession -- which is often teaching or coaching or mentoring, for example -- and that this devotion to profession or craft, something a heterosexual might not be able to do due to familiar responsibilities, is an objectively good thing? do we not all benefit from this? what about the clear evidence of homosexual men, in particular, excelling in the arts? is our world not more colorful, more interesting, more vibrant, because of homosexual men and their often unique creative capabilities? (i would argue that it's the exclusion by society at a young age pushing him into the role of observer/critic that augments a gay man's keenly discerning eye)
is difference among humans to be encouraged or discouraged? do we not all benefit by different viewpoints, different ideas, different understandings, different people in general? is human diversity an inherently good thing? what would be lost if we were all the same? if we all spoke the same language? if we all ate the same food? if we all had the same religion? would the world not only be less interesting but would we also lose a part of our humanness as well?
AEON what you've well exposed is your negative attitude towards homosexuality. you see it as a bad thing.
but ask yourself why. and ask yourself if what you've been taught is due to a superficial, aesthetic prejudice -- the way that, 50 years ago, a white southern man would have reacted to the thought of a black man having sex with a white woman -- and nothing else? that if you genuinely examine the lives and contributions of homosexuals, if you value the unique contributions offered by homosexuals due to the slightly different place in society they occupy, perhaps you'll start to see that homosexuals are a benefit to you and, yes, to your children.
perhaps your child will have an inspirational music teacher, and perhaps this teacher is so good because he is gay -- because he was exluded as a youngster and found solace in music, and he is determined to share this joy with the world, and it is his lack of children at home that enables him to channel all of his parental instincts into his students. perhaps a lesbian couple adopts a child who might have spent more years in foster care, bouncing from home to home and winding up in jail or worse. perhaps a woman in an unhappy marriage can look at the genuine equality that is achieved by same-sex couples as a model to strive to, that simply because of her gender, she isn't automatically subservient to her husband, that there's another way for a couple to function
and finally, let's get to sexuality. i think most heterosexuals agree that there is more to sex than simple reproduction. and it's the removal of the possibility of reproduction that can help us unpack the magic and mystery of the sex act, of what it does for people in loving relationships and how it helps them bond, and connect, and strengthen the bonds -- intellectual, emotional, and physical -- that hold them together.
the existence of homosexuals, in some way, lets us know that, yes, we are more than animals. that we have a point beyond the continuation of our genes. that there is logic in disorder, and magic in mystery.