I believe in redemption if the person wants it more terribly than wealth. I treat both hetero and homosexual with respect and willingness to live and let live, unless or until the person shows me a bad side to their personality then I'll quietly move on.
Once I came home from work, dead tired, only to greet two very muscular, large black men and their wives in my front yard. They were angry that my son had chased their children.
Here comes my gay neighbor swishing across the street in his flip flops and firmly plants his skinny frame between me and the men. Turns out my son was chasing their boys because he had just witnessed them steal a neighbors two scooters.
I mean here my gay neighbor was ready to go to the ground for me, and I had avoided ever meeting him. We are friends now, since my husband died he has insisted I keep busy, and last night, finding me in my usual depression tears, he insisted we decorate my yard for Christmas.
So we and my next door neighbors were out until midnight putting up my Christmas lawn decorations. You talk about an eye for design, he makes a great designer, and I acutally had fun for the first time in a long time, even though it was sprinkling rain.
When someone shows me that much love and caring, that is what they are going to get back from me, I can't help it.
That was a great story. I, too, have some wonderful homosexual friends. Many are extremely intelligent and talented.
I happen to think this is something hard-wired in the brain, something people are born with. The people I know sort of grew into it during puberty; it wasn't a conscious choice. I don't think we should punish people for pursuing happiness with other willing adults.