Akenaton, if these points have been made earlier in this mammoth thread, then I apologise in advance (I don't have time to read it all).

You talk about the link between homosexuality and AIDS, but the genuine link is between certain kinds of sexual practices and AIDS, or the link between the foolishness of not using condoms and AIDS.

Plenty of gay men do not participate in anal sex (in my experience, it's only heterosexuals with anti-gay agendas who think that we do). Plenty more use condoms when they do. The overwhelming majority of AIDS cases outside the West are the result of heterosexual intercourse without condoms.

Those are three reasons why you are positing a false equation.

Homosexuality is an identity, and it is not the same as same-sex activity.

And just out of interest, if your forum name relates to the Egyptian pharaoh, did you know that a lot of scholarship now considers him to a person involved in same-sex activity ? (Not that this makes him a 'homosexual', as that is a term coined in the 19th century)