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"If you believe that homosexuals are hardwired from birth to be gay..."

I was thinking about this today, and I was thinking that it doesn't really matter. People can claim to be, and maybe are, "hardwired from birth" to be a lot of things, but that alone doesn't make those things acceptable.

For example, there are some violent people who have been violent for their entire lives, right back to their childhoods. It is entirely plausible that they are "just born that way", but what's the difference, society will not approve of their going around committing violence.

I don't mean to equate homosexuality per se with violence, but I certainly can't equate it with race or ethnicity as it is defined by behavior, nevermind the queer theorists and their gobboldey gook.

Marriage exists because it is via heterosexual coupling that offspring are produced. The fact that many married couples never have, or cannot have, children doesn't change this.

The only option I can support in this debate is somekind of "household" plan, where two (I think we better keep it to two, or the record keepers of the world will show us what a REAL revolution is like) persons can form a civil union (to borrow a phrase) without regard to whether they are lovers or not. This will protect the homos and serve their purposes (most of which are pretty understandable), it will distinguish such arrangements from true marriage, and as the boomers age it may well help some ordinary single folks get through life a little more easily.

For what it's worth!