Why is homosexuality "bad" to some people?

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Why is murder "bad" to some people?

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Sure. But what authority ordains that it is "bad" to harm someone? That value judgment is just as arbitrary as condemnation of sexual deviancy.

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You're presupposing that there is a "right to life." That is an arbitrary value judgment, precisely as with condemnation of homosexuality.

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The point is that no normative value can be derived solely from fact. Some are derivative values and others are "root" values; but in either case, a person adopts a standard not supported by objective considerations.

Unless, then, you're willing to denounce all morality, it's inconsistent to complain that critics of homosexuality can't offer a "reason" for their condemnation.

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Unless, then, you're willing to denounce all morality, it's inconsistent to complain that critics of homosexuality can't offer a "reason" for their condemnation.

You'll notice I never said that.

Cool. So we both agree that the paradigmatic argument against moral condemnation of homosexuality—the one, mind you, that this thread clearly presupposes to be correct—is in fact fallacious. That was my only point.