Totally false premise and conclusion. On several occasions in this thread I have acknowledged that I do not have answers to all questions being posed. I also acknowledged that I discovered ideas from critics that I had not previously considered. I explicitly thanked those contributors who were actually trying to engage in a conversation as opposed to a jeremiad against gays and I explicitly acknowledged that there were "legitimate concerns" being discussed.
I have no problem acknowledging factual data that contradicts what I believe. But here are the differences between you and I.
(1) I have seen up-close-and-personal how language and "research studies" can be used to injure good and decent people and how it is possible to poison the environment necessary for civil discourse in our society.
Back in the 1950's there were "scientific studies" that "conclusively proved" the inherent "genetic inferiority" of blacks. There were clergymen that emphatically proclaimed that "segregation was ordained by the Bible" and they announced that anyone who disputed their conclusions was a "Communist agitator or dupe". The membership applications and Constitutions of the various KKK groups proclaimed their devotion to "protecting Christian values" and their "patriotic" motivation.
(2) "Factual information" can be used to enlighten and increase understanding of an issue OR it can be used as polemic to defame entire categories of people to cause hostility and facilitate violence and discrimination. As I previously noted, contributors to this thread have employed language which does not facilitate calm, rational, respectful discussion. That is the "bigger picture"....Examples:
15 = threat to society at large, disgusting
40 = lust-driven perverted lifestyle
48 = mentally ill
105= mental defect
119= sick, deviant, perverts
203= evil
283= revolting
305= disordered
331= warped and destructive
350= aberrant, sickening, filthy, vile, putrid
441= useful idiots of the left
497= limp wristred sniveling little pansy boy, coward
541= fag lovin freak
Merely proclaiming your superiority to other beings isn't sufficient for me to acknowledge your superiority.
Ash Alert!
Unfortunately for you, your posting record is available for all to see.
You are ignoring questions that challenge your position, and not just mine. Travis McGee asked you some questions 10 times and you never answered. Your continued use of misdirection has not gone unnoticed.
I'd like to be wrong here, but it appears you have no problem with sex between siblings, parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, as long as everybody is a consenting adult. Most folks call that perversion, and that mindset doesn't belong at FreeRepublic.
The bigger picture is to look at all the facts which includes what former homosexuals have to say on the matter.