To avoid misunderstandings like that, it's probably a better idea to start a new thread, and if it seems appropriate, to put a link to the earlier thread in the opening post.
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It seems to me there are a lot of analogies between being gay and being a smoker. Some people are, some people aren't, maybe its a matter of choice, maybe its a matter of DNA, either way it's their business, and nobody's got any right to hassle them for it.

Persecution just gives this kind of variance an artificial importance, as if whether someone is gay (or, increasingly, is a smoker) is the most important defining thing about them, rather than just being one among a myriad ways in which people vary in the way they behave.