It shouldn't matter whether being homosexual is involuntary or not; it should be accepted out of a belief in personal autonomy and not simply because people believe we can't help ourselves.

I think the people involved in it should be accepted and loved and then helped if they are willing.

Once it becomes understood that homosexuality is an inherent trait

we all are all born with sin.

The ignorance and bigotry on each side of this dilemma seems to me to be no more the both sides failure to realize their use of another sin.

Example:I say to you that you are doing something that is wrong and will harm you, you say to me, who are to Judge my actions?.

But in doing so are you not also judging me?

And then again hateful fools will mostly be on ether side of any type of conflict.

Just a couple of thoughts on this matter that I hope that Will help in some way, and because in my old Job I had met and came love many homosexual coworkers who are not around any more and from what I fear was a byproduct of their Lifestyle, and in a time that I had nether the insight or information to try or care to help them.

As always, it is very important to know the author's agenda before judging the authority of his work.

Problem is that you haven't gotten true tolerance then, just an excuse. . . . Someday the discussion needs to move beyond 'well I agree that homosexuality is wrong in theory, but I can't help myself' to 'homosexual is okay in and of itself'.

I suspect that it will once more people actually know openly gay people. In the meantime, I'd think that tolerance gained from a one-off rationalization is far better than the status quo ante.

Crawl, walk, run and all that.

Problem is that you haven't gotten true tolerance then, just an excuse. And an excuse you could lose at any momment. If it turns out it's not actually inherent you're back to square one. And if it is inherent, you're now a problem that needs to be fixed.

Someday the discussion needs to move beyond 'well I agree that homosexuality is wrong in theory, but I can't help myself' to 'homosexual is okay in and of itself'.

It shouldn't matter whether being homosexual is involuntary or not; it should be accepted out of a belief in personal autonomy and not simply because people believe we can't help ourselves.

Homosexuality goes against the basic instincts on most of us and is swimming against the tide of cultural norms and especially religious morality. To the extent, then, that it's viewed as "a lifestyle choice," inertia is on the side of intolerance.

Once it becomes understood that homosexuality is an inherent trait, however, comparisons to racial discrimination and other more familiar lessons are harder to ignore.