But Little Hawk, you don't address the reason for this thread's being. If you agree that we already have more people than we know what to do with and there's no relief in sight, that brings us back to a reason beyond the production of children for union between people.

As Amos says, it comes back to equality under LAW. Whyever should a certain group of people not be given the same consideration as 'most everyone else? Never mind what certain people say- and evidently believe - the homosexual's "lifestyle" has nothing whatever to do with my health or your health so that has nothing in the world to do with what law should pertain to him or her regarding their private lives.