Homosexuals are alot more likely to get an STD, especially HIV and AIDS. I've heard reports that children of homosexuals are worse off, or not as happy, or something like that. I'll research about it if you want. The divorce rate among homosexuals is higher. Homosexuality is an addiction that you can get out of if you want, just like heterosexuallity. People have gotten out of both. That's all I have to say for now.

How is it an addiction? It is extremely demeaning to put down homosexual "love" as an addiction(and heterosexuality is just sex, too?), not that you obviously give a crap about those faggy gays, eh? They just sit around having sex all day.

Every single shread of scientific research speaks against you on that.

I'm also disgusted that their being prone to HIV is an argument against them - what about people who are naturally prone to getting other diseases? Should be discriminate against women because they can get certain types of cancers men can't often get?

Not to mention it's people like you's blasted fault that happens by denying people the appropriate education in the first place.

It's blatant you are starting out with a prejudiced belief and trying to scramble together information to defend it.

Divorce rates? Statistics please? And there's any number of factors that can affect that.

Sure, HIV is sexually transmitted, but you're missing the point, which is that gay people are no more prone to HIV/AIDS than are straight people.

I think the point may have been that homosexuality is a more promiscuous lifestyle

Except, um.. that it's not.

It may not be true, but I would think that if you randomly selected 100 "straight" people and 100 "gay" people, you would find that more of the straight people were not promisuous... I really have no data to back this up, except I would think that people that consider themselves gay have gone through a sexual identity evaluation that normaly includes expirimentation... but this is just me thinking, not any hard facts. What do you think about it?

...this is just me thinking, not any hard facts.

#a- It's homoSEXUALITY. It's a sexuality just like heterosexuality. Any sexual lifestyle becomes a habit that is hard to get out of and you have withdrawls when you try to.
Your counter to my comment on diseases is not valid. HIV is defferent that cancer. When someone gets HIV it's always someone's fault.
It's spread by:
sex
bodily fluids
Mother to child

If you get it from sex, it's your fault you had sex, unless it was a rape.

What education am I denying people?

Well...

Thank you so much for adding this valueble insight into the discussion.

I was referring to the fact that YOU YOURSELF gave me the answer: It was nowhere near the state of being hard facts.

hmmmm... I didn't ask for an answer, I was wondering if IJ (but anyone really) thought about my reasoning.

I think that it hinges a lot on your definition of "promiscuity." Since we've already established that sexuality in the homo- and hetero- sense is about feelings of love, not actual sexual experiences, I would hesistate to make any assumptions about the relative "promiscuity" of straight and gay people. I think it's likely that most homosexual people "discover" their orientation long before they ever have a sexual experience, just like you and I did, and I doubt that the average gay high school kid is any more promiscuous than the average straight one.

If homosexuality is normal, than why are there different genders in the first place?

A better question would be, if homosexuality is wrong, why did God create it, or at the very least, willfully allow it to come into being? (Remember, homosexuality isn't a choice, so blaming it on God's imperfect creations doesn't work out this time around.)

Actually, homosexuality could be considered a choice, as there are examples of heterosexuals switching to homosexuality, as well as homosexuals switching to heterosexuality.

My opinion is that humans have been spinning in a downward spiral since "the Fall" back in the Garden of Eden. God didn't create it, it just is a natural outgrowth of sin.

Now I'm going to be guilty of retreading well-trod territory, but what the heck: God created man and God created sin (or God created Satan knowing full well that he would create sin.. whatever you want to believe, it all goes back to God). Absolving God of responsibility for creating homosexuality isn't possible.

God created all sentient beings with free will. Creating man as His puppet wouldn't make any sense; He wants us to freely worship Him. Thus, it's man's choice to fall into sin; God would prefer if it wouldn't happen, but he's not going to force anyone to obey him in some sort of mind control. He's not a dictator.

Thus, it's man's choice to fall into sin

Let me try this once more: Homosexuality is not a choice.

Let me try this once more: Homosexuality is not a choice.

But why is that? Because every human is born into sin. We are tainted from the very point we are conceived. All of this is because of the original fall into sin.

And remember, there have been cases where homosexuals have changed to heterosexuals.

I agree with seamusz, though, on how some people may be born with more of a tendency towards same-sex relationships than others. But why is that? Because every human is born into sin.

Why is that? Because of genetics. Gay people are born that way.

The fact that someone has genes that emphasize sexual attraction for members of the same gender does not make them sinners.

And those gay people who turned straight? I don't know, but it seems like maybe they weren't really gay in the first place. Like IJ said.

I just can't understand how people can take a genetic condition and turn it into a sin. If you were born with Down's syndrome, would it be your sin that you weren't born without Down's syndrome? Of course not.

Now I'm not comparing Down's and homosexuality, I'm just saying they're both genetic and you can't do anything about it.

Then again, that brings up the idea of genetic engineering, but we'll leave that out of this, I think.

That person can either deny that there is a problem and struggle through there life not dealing with their violence issues, OR they could accept that they have this tendency and embrace it because they were born that way, OR they could accept that they have the tendency and work toward addressing it.

How do you propose they "address" it? We've already "addressed" the fact that homosexuality is not a disease and that it cannot be "treated," much less cured. The only way to "address" it is to stop persecuting people for the way they were born and let them live their lives the only way that they can.