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Each and every example you listed in indefensible.

Just as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton don't speak for the black community as a whole, neither do these "gay activist" speak for everyone who is gay. In fact, I'd say they speak for very few gay people, at least the one's I know.

What troubles me is that I find most people on free republic to be smart and questioning of information that is fed to them, until it comes to issues about homosexuality.

I do read the links, and the links to the studies in those links. As with most things these days, these are facts that have been stretched to fit the message rather than letting the facts speak for themselves. And no one questions that because it something they want to believe.

I'm here to make people think and engage, hopefully, in an intelligent discussion about the issues, (and not exclusively about homosexual issues.)

If your opposition to homosexuals is based on your religious beliefs, I can accept that and to some degree understand it, since I was raised in a Southern Baptist home. For some reason, people seem to think that I woke up one day and easily discarded my religious upbringing and decided to choose to be gay. Nothing could be further from the truth.

However, when there is discussion on this board is seems to quickly deteriorate to the kind of banter I heard in the junior high lockeroom in referencing anal sex. That is the type of comment that you won't see me respond to in any way.

I think we try (some of us) to have intelligent conversations about this subject, but a lot of us are tired of the subject. I feel like it's shoved down my throat. I'm sorry to tell you I find it distasteful. Not only because of my religion, but because of my knowledge of anatomy. I just think it's a distasteful behavior, and unnatural. I don't want to send my son to school to be taught that this is one of the ways people have sex when they grow up. He is in third grade and doesn't realize what normal sex is yet. I don't want or appreciate the schools and television tying to teach him these things. I'm sure you can understand that.

Tom, I agree with you. And I really can sympathize with your position. It is not you or your lifestyle that offends me. It is however, the activists who carry on this cause...and it is destructive. And it's not just destructive to those they are doing the damage to, it is destructive to the Gay movement, itself.

It is turning live-and-let-live people like me into harderned opposers of the homosexual agenda who are sick of it. Tolerance is a two-way street, and yet while the straght community is practically being foced to accept your beliefs, many in your community do not reciprocate that same tolerance. I'm not saying this about you, but about those Gays who won't tolerate those who believe differently than them.

And this isn't even a religious thing for me as I'm not a religious person. Yet, anyone who objects or dissents from the Gay community is then labeled a right-wing religious wacko. I only hope you can understand some of our positions the way I can understand yours. Peace.

Just as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton don't speak for the black community as a whole, neither do these "gay activist" speak for everyone who is gay. In fact, I'd say they speak for very few gay people, at least the one's I know.

Funny, I have not seen to much activism for that "majority" you hint on.