Are homosexuality and homosexual marriage moral issues?
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, a group against AIDS, protests in New York City against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Some people who approve of homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle have said that homosexuality and homosexual marriage are not moral issues. Often, this is stated in an attempt to distance themselves from ethics and focus on the social and political agenda to promote homosexuality. Still, is homosexuality and homosexual marriage a moral issue? Yes, it is. Morality deals with person-to-person relationships and what ought and ought not to be done within them. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines morality: "descriptively to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by a society or, some other group, such as a religion, or accepted by an individual for her own behavior or normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.&q