A big problem is that when someone says they “support the legal and civil rights of gays,” you can’t be sure if they mean they support homosexuals being held to and represented with the same standards of legality and civility as heterosexuals, or whether they are referring to “gay rights” as coined by those who see the term as indicating something special, such as gay marriage and the right to pull your wang out in the street and flog the bishop in front of toddlers, as was done at the Folsom Street Fetish Festival.
I have friends who are homosexual. They are aware of my stance, and accept that I do not acknowledge them as anything more or less than I do heterosexual individuals. They do not get special treatment in any case. Period. And I call them by their names, not their sexual preferences.
I don’t identify people by their sexual behaviors either. I don’t want to even know that about people because it is private. Too bad gay activists don’t agree with us. They are parading it in the streets, on televison, at work and in our schools. Soon they will be doing it in their military bunkers.