"What I found 'telling', is that when YOU found someone you suspected of being homosexual, you called it 'dirty', as you referred to it!
" ...Sorta a 'Freudian Slip' there, Chief."

Sorry, Goofup, but you've once again got the wrong end of the stick. The "dirty little secret" is not that same-sex orientation is "dirty," but that you denying the likely genetic base of sexual orientation because a very close relative of yours (according to you) "decided" to be gay and deserted the family to run off with his male lover is pretty limp. If there is a genetic basis for sexual orientation, then your own orientation can appear pretty precarious, so you go into severe denial. Which includes trying to convince yourself that there is nothing to the idea of sexual orientation being genetics based. Claiming that sexual orientation is just a matter of choice is simply you whistling in the dark, AND to take a political or social activist position on that basis is pretty damned sleazy. THAT's the dirty little secret.

I've met flaming homophobes before, and every damned one of them has been a closet gay—in the closet to themselves, even though their problem was patently obvious to everyone else.

Both you and your Scottish buddy need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourselves why you are so rabid about this subject.

Don Firth