You cannot have a gay person as a friend? What if you work with a gay person, do you refuse to deal with him? If you live next door do you refuse to say hello?
Gay people exist. You can hate the lifesyle, you can hate the gay activist agenda, but you shouldn't hate the individual.
"claining that a pervert is "a trusted friend confidente to me and my family." bothers me."
Claiming that you live in the real world--where everyone knows and/or is related to someone who's gay--and spitting out the word "pervert" like it's a racial epithet, bothers me.
We conservatives can well disapprove of this so-called lifestyle; we can condemn its sexual practices (count me in on both of those). But to attempt to diminish and dehumanize people with your ignorance only dehumanizes you. Further than is already the case, I mean.