We are talking about inherently irrational actions committed by people without any moral-restraint. Your liberal ideas of promoting a perversion of marriage sounds good to uninformed ears, but really they are merely band-aids to a festering wound. So-called 'safe sex' used to be their big answer, until the sexual deviants bailed out on that as being 'too much trouble.' Now we have organizations such as 'Sex Panic' who are calling for MORE promiscuity rather than less. The only way to stop self-inflicted behavioral diseases is to stop the behaviors which cause them. The waste of taxpayer money is about as bad as the moral-liberal excuses for their evil behaviors.
God is infinite wisdom. Humanism is pure hubris, which always results in unneeded suffering and death.
I remember reading in Desmond Morris' book "The Naked Ape" about sexual imprinting and how much like the imprinting that causes a duck to take the first thing it sees as 'mom.' The lack of chioce in being a homosexual makes more sense to me then the thought anyone would deliberately chose this lifestyle so incomprehensible in so many ways to a hetrosexual.
In fact, Eugene, Oregon I understand has more lesbian couples per capita then any other West Coast city. And as I have three of these couples living in expensive, well groomed homes a stone's throw from mine, I believe it.
I refuse to treat anyone differently based on sexual preference. (Other then we have no need to explore sexual issues, and we would not find each other together in a bedroom of course.)
With all due respect, I have my suspisions that those scpegoating these people would have an inherent need to find another target group to go after if these folks did not exist. I have known people so intensely obsessed with homosexuals, that is all they will talk about. And that was a boresome drag(no pun intented).
I strongly detest people who victimize children who have not the tools for informed consent adiquate to be any sort of comsenting partner, but I am still not convinced pedophiles and homosexuals are the same thing.
I read these threads in this forum on this issue, then as in other issues I look to see what the other side says. And until I see empirical evidence as compelling as those studies that changed the classification of homosexuals from sickos to being normal folks with one big difference that harms nobody in the eyes of shrinks, I doubt seriously I will change my thinking on this issue.
Most influential to shaping my opinion was being picked on in High School by an idiot slurring me as a "faggot" to bully me and impress his girl. I know first hand how a label can harm the innocent.
His actions, and the 'blindness' of adults to the problem when they could have put this jerk in his place make me cagey about accepting obvious hatred and anger towards a group over well executed studies.
I would verbally dismantle a gay sending lustful signals my way. I would go way more postal on anyone dumb enough to use any term for homosexual in reference to me to my face. They would be in serious, very profound trouble.
Perhaps if I hadn't had this experiance I would be more alligned with your viewpoint. But I did. And I don't.
In any event, thanks for your perspective on this issue. I am sure you feel as sincere about your beliefs on this as I do.