Sodomites are NOT loved and respected they are hated. "He who cannot hate is not a man"- Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West.
Not by me. But I don't have to approve, either. When my two homosexual neighbors lost power during hurricane Ike, I hooked them up to my dryer breaker for a week.
They're good neighbors, and keep their proclivties to themselves - as do I.
While I don't approve, I certainly don't hate them either.