In Richard D. Mohr’s article, “On Gay Rights”, Richard argues several positions for gay rights. “Who are gays anyway?” As Richard puts it, ‘they are your friends, your minister, your teacher, your bank teller, your doctor, your mail carrier, your secretary, your congressional representative, your sibling, parent and spouse. They are …show more content…
He provides several arguments of why it’s not unnatural and I grasp more on the used notion that genitals are designed for the purpose of procreation. It’s not natural if you are not using your body parts for what they were designed to do. But yet, when a heterosexual couple choses not to have a child or when they simply just can’t bear a child they are viewed as pity and have to forgo some of the richness in life. Richard’s point to this, which I highly agree, is that consistency then would require that most gays who do not or cannot have children are to be pitied rather than condemned. The immoral or unnatural part of objecting to gays and lesbians is the willful preventing them of achieving the richness of life. Even though a gay couple may not be able to bear a child through their body parts, they can certainly gain the richness in life through