Astro .....I've been reading all the bullshit and cosy rhetoric about different ways of living and loving, how homosexuality is genetic not behavioural and how its not really sexual at all, but just pure luuuuve, like we used to see in the movies.

I wasn't even going to bother to respond to the "feelgood sisterhood" but when I read your post I saw sincerity and clear sightedness.

I agree with your thoughts on this thread and the agendas of many who have posted here. I also agree that we should be putting our efforts into helping those who suffer, not punishing them.
To start helping to solve a problem, it is important to understand that there is a problem to begin with. People like mauvepink and others here, see any discussion of homosexuality and its place in our society as bigotry, but blinding ourselves to the problems associated with homosexuality is much worse, it condemns homosexuals to the lifestyle they have at present.....horrendous health and life expectancy statistics, promiscuity figures which point multiple sexual partners and a statistical link to child abuse, in the surveys on child abuse in the Catholic church.

These are real problems which need to be addressed in the way homosexuals in Los Angeles are dealing with the dreadful link to hiv/aids, facing up to the figures,accepting that there is a problem and attempting to find out why the problems exist.

No sane person wants to see fellow humans suffer, no matter what their sexual practices are and closing our eyes to what is actually happening around us helps no one.