Akenaton - if you re-read my original post you'll see quite clearly that my italics are direct quotes from other posters - including you - not descriptions of those posters.

Nonetheless, if you really believe that the lifestyle of my next-door neighbours and friends - and other gay couples I have known - carries extreme health issues, then you are indeed illogical and prejudiced in my view.

You're ascribing the lifestyle of some people in the gay community to all people in the gay community - merely to assert that "gay marriage" or a civil partnership ceremony is which a legal equivalent is "not about love". Your words.

I firmly believe that gay people can't help the sexual orientation that they are born with. It's not a "disease". It can't be "cured". It's not an "aberration". It's existed for thousands of years in different cultures. To try and stigmatise it in particular is illogical. If you're going to fulminate about sexually transmitted diseases and the behaviour that causes it, then there's a whole barrel of stuff for you to fulminate about - chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes and others. All transmitted by many different sections of society.