No it doesn ' t . This is a common tactic of blowhards and grandstanders , which you are so pay attention . You can compare two or more things based on any number of a nearinfinite amount of qualities at any level of abstraction . Making one comparison does not imply equivalency between the subjects of comparison . Attraction to an adult of the same sex and attraction to adolescent or prepubescent minors are both sexual preferences . You can call one an orientation and the other a fetish or a deviation , but that is what they are . Heterosexuality shares the same categorization , but you wouldn ' t accuse me of calling that abnormal . If I say that airplanes and hot air balloons are both methods of air travel , I would not be saying that hot air balloons are as fast as airplanes or that just as many people use hot air balloons to travel as airplanes . I thought I made this really clear by specifiying that you can ' t make a gay man straight . My sentence did not even structurally arouse confusion as to which noun I attributed abnormality to . I was very clear . Gays cannot be made straight , pedophiles cannot be made normal . This isn ' t hard . You ' re forcing an equivilancy that was never even suggested just so you can announce that you are a good person for not thinking gays are bad . The thought that gays aren ' t normal originated in your brain from either a lack of reading comprehension or a compulsion to argue . It wasn ' t conveyed in my sentence . This is of course using the colloquial definition of normal . There are multiple statistical and scientific definitions of a norm . By some of them , homosexuality might probably be considered an abnormal sexual orientation depending on your definition and the source of your numbers , but I never said that homosexuality was as abnormal as pedophilia because that colloquially suggests a similarity in the level of social acceptability . I wouldn ' t call homosexuality abnormal generally and when I meet a homosexual , it ' s not a rare enough occurrence to intrigue me at all and it doesn ' t fall outside of my bounds of typical human characteristics . Duh