Homosexuality is individual preferences above all morals
Image via Wikipedia As a political issue, the debates over homosexual rights represent a serious conceptual and moral issue. By making sexual identity a public matter, the gay /lesbian/ bisexual/transgender movement fulfills Hannah Arendt 's prophesy (in her book, The Human Condition ) that traditionally private matters will become socialized in modernity. On a deeper level, the prohomosexual lobby, which seeks equal legal rights to nonheterosexual marriage s and an end to all discrimination on sexual orientation and activities grounds, reflects James Davison Hunter 's " progressive " mindset (in his book Culture Wars ), which places personal individual preference above all objective and traditional moral standards and sees ethics as historically and personally relative. This is contrasted, by Hunter, with the more conservative "orthodox" perspective that rejects homosexuality on traditional moral, religious, an...