GfS, your "survey" is spurious, proves nothing, and is a complete waste of bandwidth. Mad? What's to get mad at?

And Ake:

If there is a higher level of promiscuity among homosexuals, it is because there is no socially acceptable outlet—such as marriage—for homosexuals as there is for heterosexuals. With both homosexuals and heterosexuals, males tend to be more promiscuous than females. There are more stable relationships between lesbians than there are between gay men. Also, even in times past, two women living together roused no comment (no matter what they may have been up to behind closed doors) whereas two men living together, especially if they have been together for some time, almost invariable raises eyebrows.

The latter can actually descend into the asinine. For example, Jerry Falwell's hissy-fit about Bert and Ernie (for those who live in a cave, Bert and Ernie are two hand-puppets on Sesame Street) being bad role models for children because they not only live together, they sleep in the same bed. Not to mention his having a cow over the fact that Tinky Winky, who speaks with the voice of a little boy, sometimes carries a "purse" (on the Teletubbies show, it's referred to as Tinky Winky's "magic bag.).

I'm sure that if gay and lesbian couples could exercise the same right to publicly declare their relationship that heterosexual couples have (marriage), it would increase the number of stable relationships, and concomitantly greatly reduce promiscuity, thereby bringing about a substantial diminution in the transmission of HIV/AIDS among gays and heterosexuals. HIV/AIDS is not a "disease of homosexuals," as many promiscuous heterosexuals have discovered to their horror.

And the "link" to homosexuality is not "unexplained." HIV/AIDS is an equal opportunity disease.

Don Firth