"Do they not realise that in homosexual practice, promiscuity and anal sex go with the territory!..."

Do you not realise that not all homosexual men have anal sex? (Did I just feel a jaw drop somewhere?). Anal sex is not the soul preserve of homosexuals either. But whether they do or not is irrelevant because lots of gay men are dying at the hands of violence just because they are who they are. Why not campaign against the violence that ends so many lives early?

HIV/AIDS not only affects gay populations. No more than other STI's do. It is a HUMAN Immunodeficiency Virus Deficiency virus. It's not a "letsonlypickongatpromiscuousmen immunodeficiency virus"... it affects, ot has the potential to affect, all HUMAN BEINGS.

I sometimes wonder if a virus had come about that excluded the gay populations, sexually transmitted, what would all the straight people have done about it? The fact is there is a disease out there affecting straight populations and they seem to be blase about it, in many cases, and do not use safe sex. Gay males are not the only promiscuous humans out there. And, in some countries, it is not homosexuality that is responsible for the high death toll. It's straight sexual practices and the lack of contraception that is abetting the spread and increasing death tolls among men, women and children.

This is not liberalism. I have no political agenda. But I will stand up for the rights of homosexuals, wrongly accused, as much as I will for Christians, wrongly accused, because the damage being done is not by them but by closed thinking (in the least) and hateful propaganda levied at them. As I have said earlier in the thread, there are lots of dangerous, risky and deadly lifestyles that are actually chosen. Why do people not campaign against them and leave people who are doing no harm to anyone alone? I still maintain they have no choice over being homosexual, but if they choose to take risks with their own lives with unsafe sex, like so many straight people do, then that is thier choice and no-one elses.

Why do some so want to blame others all the time instead of putting their own house in order? It truly saddens me.

mp