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Unfortunately, bias goes both ways. For example, there is monumental, credible and ironclad scientific evidence that the earth is several billion years old, yet we still have people who insist it is several thousand years old.

And you may disagree with that as well.... so what one may consider as credible evidence, another may not.

But, like I said earlier, I'm not an expert in this area of science. But it doesn't matter all that much to me. If it turns out to be a choice versus being a born trait, it doesn't change the fact that people deserve to be treated with respect.

You seem to be looking at this in a reasonable and scientific way, so that isn't a comment on your views, but rather others who can't seem to understand that it is up to an individual to follow the path they walk. I'd rather worry about radical Muslim terrorists than some dude marrying another dude. At least they leave more women for the rest of us (joking).

Bias definitely goes both ways, no doubt about it.

Last Thursday I taught my last class on radioactivity, in which we discussed isotopes, unstable nuclei, decay along with assumptions in alpha, beta and gamma decay. Assumptions are okay in science as long as they're accurate. But to state monumental, credible and ironclad scientific evidence exists here tells me something.

I have no idea how old the earth is and won't tell you it's one age over another. Furthermore, I think anybody who pushes one age over another is pushing assumptions more than anything else.

it doesn't change the fact that people deserve to be treated with respect.

I don't think anybody would argue with you here. Just because people disagree on this issue in no way implies homosexuals are not treated with respect.

I'd rather worry about radical Muslim terrorists than some dude marrying another dude.

Back to the subject... multitasking is easy enough. I can lecture on AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), what the Quran says about infidels, Muslim terrorists, homosexuality, the serious health hazards of the homosexual life, AIDS and HIV with a myriad of data from the CDC, Calvinism vs. Armininism (and everything in between the two,) and more. Multitasking is easy enough.

Here we're talking about homosexuality and we can also discuss its effects on society. AIDS appears to be discriminatory. That is, AIDS is much more prevalent in a certain segment of society and that segment is MSM (Men who have Sex with Men). That should bother most people with a hint of compassion.

We have schools pushing homosexuality as normal and something congenital. In this context homosexuality refers to those who have same-sex attraction—I'm not referring to the behaviour (acting on that attraction).

Some schools hand out x-rated material to children and school events where a speaker discusses homosexuality in which parents are not allowed to opt their children out. Some of the material is very graphic. The same schools refuse to allow former homosexuals to talk with the children.

There is so much more. We have scientists, some of whom are homosexual, admitting environment is a major factor in determining our sexuality. Environment isn't a minor factor, it's a major factor. This needs to be discussed far and wide, not ignored, squelched, suppressed or labeled hate speech, yet that is exactly what is happening.