"THEY have the hatred and wish to use emotional blackmail on those who adhere to conventional sex and marriage."

No, Ake. As a group, most gays don't hate anyone or wish to use any kind of emotional blackmail. They just want to have the same civil rights as anyone else, and to have the bigots leave them the hell alone.

If you find their lifestyle "abhorrent," that's your problem, not theirs. And you have no right to try to force your brand of morality on anyone else.

As I have mentioned above, my wife and I know at least two same-sex couples, and at least one of these couples are fairly good friends of ours. What they do in their own apartment has no affect on anyone else, and if it endangers Barbara's and my marriage in any way, someone is going to have to explain just how.

Denying rights on this basis is just plain bigotry, pure and simple. It's no different from racial bigotry.

Don Firth