I love the 'homosexuality is against nature' argument because it's so easy to poke holes in.
First, homosexuality is common in 'nature' - every species that has sex has homosexuality (well, not plants, per se. Plants just pollinate everything and let God sort it out).
Second, practically everything modern humans do is 'unnatural', from wearing clothes to pooping indoors. Bathing? Unnatural. Doctors? Unnatural. Reading books? Unnatural. Using a computer to argue with strangers about the unnaturality of homosexuality? Unnatural.
There, Quexos, that's why you're wrong.
And to get this back on relative track, Mr. Card's argument is that *homosexuality* is 'natural' and heterosexuality is *unnatural* and difficult but necessary.
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Men and women, from childhood on, have very different biological and social imperatives. They are naturally disposed to different reproductive strategies; men are (on average) larger and stronger; the relative levels of various hormones, the difference in the rate of maturity, and many other factors make it far, far easier for women to get along with other women and men to get along with men.
Men, after all, know what men like far better than women do; women know how women think and feel far better than men do. But a man and a woman come together as strangers and their natural impulses remain at odds throughout their lives, requiring constant compromise, suppression of natural desires, and an unending effort to learn how to get through the intersexual swamp.
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