He’s a friend.
I owe him my arm to hold him out of the pit, at least.
Could you talk to him about the drastically lower life expectancy, the extreme incidence of alcoholism and drug abuse, etc., that correlate with homosexual activity? When you don’t want to bring up a moral point - perhaps because the person is an atheist, as your friend is - a point about mortality might at least be taken as kind concern, rather than judgmentalism.
Absolutely.