>Government can neither promote or suppress homosexuals and be consistently conservative.<
So, to use my analogy again, if taking part in a consensual activity that is not essential to physical life, such as the Lord’s supper, was implicated as a primary cause in the death of over half a million Americans, and multitude more worldwide, as well as a greatly increased incidence of infectious diseases, despite attempts to use preventive measures, and was also contrary to the well-being of the family, then the government would not be conservative it did not work to suppress this practice? Thus the liberals were acting conservative when they fought against shutting down bath houses at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, which still has homosexuality as it major cause in the West.
If the practice of a foreign power caused the medical and social problems, and the resultant financial cost which homosexuality has*, America would be at war with that country right now.
No, homosexuality is not alone in this, and the war against God is very costly and we all have our guilt, but we are not to justify sin, bu turn in repentance to the Lord Jesus, in which there is redemption for both straight and homosexual sinners. Thanks be to God.
*http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#Sec8
For a minute, I thought you were talking about smoking :-)
Or maybe driving.
Once the hazard was known, steps can be and were taken to mitigate the hazard. You should limit your case to those who have died since the ramifications (no pun intended) of the activity have been known who were not participants and did not choose to accept the risk created by others. That number is quite small and comparable to many risks of life to bystanders.
Many things are detrimental to families that are not illegal and are far more prevalent: football widowhood, ordinary adultery, boy’s night out etc. And then there is simple laziness, bad temperament, inability to communicate etc. The fact is, you cannot perfect humanity by passing laws. That has been religion’s greatest mistake since first achieving power under Constantine. Christ denied His kingdom was of this world or that perfection or something like it was achievable by fiat. But it doesn’t stop many people who call themselves Christians from trying over and over and ultimately becoming their own enemy in the process.