SLD
Contributor
A gay person is indeed not a threat or a serious moral issue. But you cannot deny that for centuries society has considered such behavior to be immoral, and thus those who engaged in such actions risked banishment or worse. It may not be logical, but that’s never stopped social norms of behavior from developing. The point I was making, and I made above is that society as a whole decides what is moral or not, and you seem to agree. How they come up with that may depend on a number of factors, way beyond our topic. And of course society evolves. 120 years ago, homosexuality, interracial marriage, premarital sex, and a host of other things were considered immoral that we would scoff at today. We think we’re more enlightened, even, dare I say it, morally superior to them.
SLD
Where you go wrong is in believing that morality is a spectrum which ranges from less than superior to superior. This is a very common misconception and every modern culture(since 5000 BCE, give or take) has someone who claims their morality is superior.
OK, but, if society has morals, however decided upon and what ever they are, then those who adhere to those morals are morally superior to those who do not.
As I said above, I think people’s issues are with the phrase "morally superior to" rather than to the actual content. We all make moral judgments about others and in doing so we are asserting our moral superiority, even if only silently condemning some others actions.
SLD