Alas, the fact remains that homosexuality is not a choice. That said, there are lots of health education programmes out there for all sexualties about how to decrease risky practices and practice safe sex. Straight people are not immune to STI's and shorter lives. Just like there are programmes to help people stop smoking.

TBH I totally never thought to include smoking as, here in the UK, advertising is banned and it is not promoted as a lifestyle. Smokers still have a choice however.

I dare say we could debate this whole topic and you will stay where you are with it and I will stay where I am. As I said: I think we need to agree to disagree but I do think I have a certain amount of facts on my side to show it is not down to choice. Risk assesments apply to all sorts of things in life, sexuality being one of them, and believe it or not, more women die in childbirth than do of AIDS/HIV I suspect. And, of course, many children will die before they even get to express a sexuality by not reaching puberty because of all sorts of horrid things. Those are the real iniquities I think we all need to concentrate on. There are enough real iniquities without making some up for groups we may not agree with.

The sad truth too is that most of those children too will have no choice in how they live or die :-(

Trying to make homosexuals into some disease ridden population who all have short life expectancy for their sexuality is as perverse to me as blaming those children for feeling so hungry. However, most would understand hunger pangs (not the same as the starving children of course) and not condemn themselves for feeling it.

Have a good weekend

mp