[Campion]

I very much doubt that most people spewing such hostile rhetoric on this thread would ever permit their children to hang out with an openly gay child, and that fact makes me very sad.

Why? I wouldn't permit my child to "hang out" with a child I knew to be fornicating, and I have already had to prohibit my son from visiting a friend's house when I found out that the friend looked at pornography on the Internet.

I love my children enough to want them to have good role models in their life, not bad ones. What a horrible concept.

[Accygirl]

My best guy friend in school was a much better Catholic than I was and would never think of having sex outside a committed relationship. The only thing about him that you'd consider a sin is that he sometimes went on a date to the movies with another guy. However, you'd still consider him to be an evil, sinful person.