Would you allow a pill that prevents your child from being gay?

A friend of mine convinced me to the positive. If you could somehow find out from pre-natal analysis that your child is gay (theoretically from detecting hormonal imbalances), would you want the mother to take a pill to "cure" his homosexuality? One must wonder what benefits there are in being gay in our society. Wouldn\'t any respectable parent want his offspring to lead a normal life? A counterargument to that would be: instead of trying to eliminate homosexuals, we should try to change society so that it does not discriminate against them. That\'s all good, but I don\'t want my child to lead an "abnormal" life. The same can be said for children diagnosed with mental or physical deformities while they are still in the mother\'s womb. Are they better off being "eliminated," since their lives are guaranteed to be fraught with difficulties? Thoughts?

[videoholic]

Man.  You are trying hard tonight.

Treating homoseuality like it\'s a disease and needs a cure and insinuating they lead an abnormal life is just silly.

Why don\'t we just abort all the gay fetuses?

If you see a limp wrist in the sonogram, suck it out.

I just got done with midterms and I\'m bored. Work with me.

You still haven\'t answered my question though. What benefits does homosexuality bring? It does not make sense biologically - you can\'t have children. Nor does it make sense culturally - your open the door to needless harrassment and stigma. I\'m not suggesting we eliminate babies who are diagnosed to be gay. I\'m saying give them a pill to straighten out their hormomal imbalances (as research would point out) and... make them straight. From a biological and cultural standpoint, it makes perfect sense.

[Titan]

If my child was gay, personally I probably wouldn\'t care. I think "treating" it like its a disease is dumb. Its just as normal as heterosexuality and who are we to say its abnormal.

Not everyone is as open as you, though. There are plenty of gay-bashers in this country. Why expose your children to that? Additionally, it will be enormously difficult for them to have children. Even if they manage to adopt one, what are the chances of that child, raised by gay parents, having a normal life?

Hell, we could start aborting fetuses with any abnormal physical development too.  Once we can test for pre-natal IQ, we could even weed out the stupid ones.  

Utopia here we come.

hyper, do you visit a down syndrome forum, by chance?

[videoholic]

Originally posted by hyper
I just got done with midterms and I\'m bored. Work with me.

You still haven\'t answered my question though. What benefits does homosexuality bring?

You double your wardrobe.

I\'ll give you one point that\'ll end this debate here and now. Without homosexuality, psx2central wouldn\'t exist.

HA!

This is a good idea.

Then we could make pills that screw with other genes. And all our kids could be white, blond haired, blue-eyed, heterosexual, and fair-skinned.

Awesome.

-Dan

that would be ideal

sexual preference is a choice

[CHIZZY]

WRONG AGAIN, FAGGOT!

[Titan]

Originally posted by hyper
Not everyone is as open as you, though. There are plenty of gay-bashers in this country. Why expose your children to that?

Fuck those people. Seriously. I dont\' know some of my friends are gay unless they\'ve told me. Didnt\' make me not be friends with them. But like racism, it will be much more tolerated by the time I have kids and they reach adolescence. I mean look at the trends today. Its getting much more accepted than it was. Yes, there will still be religious fanatics and crap that are intolerable.

Additionally, it will be enormously difficult for them to have children.

Heh, no shit?

Even if they manage to adopt one, what are the chances of that child, raised by gay parents, having a normal life?

A lot higher than you think.

[Titan]

Originally posted by square_marker
sexual preference is a choice

Originally posted by CHIZZY
WRONG AGAIN, FAGGOT!

There is some slight truth to that, actually. Some people do choose that lifestyle but the very vast majority are born into it. there are people who experiment and like it. However, I guess you can argue that they were born into it.