Source: The Hindu

After seeing a lot of traffic on my blog yesterday, I could make out 1 thing. Many people were interested in it. Today, in this post we will try to understand or deliberate – should we tolerate Gay behaviour or not?

After going through some articles on the origin of homosexuality, I was thoroughly confused. The confusion was primarily this – is homosexuality an adaptation or genetic trait. There have been many unsuccessful researches and findings till now and we are still unsure. So I turned to animals. I considered animals because if they displayed homosexual behaviour on instinct, then man being no different may be allowed to do so.

I delved into 10-20 popular articles and there were 2 broad schools of thought.

Thought 1 – Animals do exhibit homosexual behaviour very similar to humans.

Thought 2 – Animals do display homosexual behaviour like genital rubbing etc. but only to co-exist peacefully in society, after minor battles over food and territory.

A widely demonstrated example was that of Bonobos (member of chimpanzee family). You may read about both, in many articles on Google. I’m just listing down 2 better ones which offer both opinions.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13674-evolution-myths-natural-selection-cannot-explain-homosexuality.html#.UqraHPQW3pt

http://www.narth.org/docs/animalmyth.html

Still, even if we consider both schools to be correct, there is another conflicting question…in animals we also see killing of babies and group mates which zoologists and wildlife scientists term as ‘Filicide’ & ‘Cannibalism’. Two typical examples are eating up of its eggs by snakes and killing of the previous cubs by the new leader of the pride, in case of lions.

If at all, we consider animals for this case too, then we have to permit ‘Infanticide’ too. We should also be ready to tolerate ‘Psychopaths’ and ‘Sociopaths’. Then again we have to resolve whether these 2 psychological problems are genetic or result of an adaptation/accident.

Not confusing my readers any further, I would like to end with the BIGGER question, which is

“How far should we go accommodating exceptions in our society?”

Whenever we come across the development of an aberrant group, will we be compliant every time? I repeat again, that I am not against gays/lesbians but if homosexuality is allowed then even eunuchs should be given a respectable place in society. Think over it.