You know very well Amos, that humans do not have the "right" to choose and marry anyone they please.

But other than that I tend to agree with you that this thread has descended into a sort of mad hate fest.
The original question was "should Homosexuals face the death penalty", i have seen no one advocate such a course of action here regardless of how we feel about the homosexual lifestyle.

The history of homosexuality,homosexual risk taking and promiscuity, incidents that I have witnessed in my life concerning homosexual child abuse and various statistics(like the ones citing priest abuse and others) have led me to the view that male homosexuals have a much stronger propensity to the abuse of pubescent teenagers than heteros.

Another poster made the very good point, that all men may have a propensity to the abuse of children, but the family structure and the siring and protection of their own children keeps that propensity in check.

I am speaking here in very general terms....of course there are exceptions in both directions, but in discussions on these subjects, generalisations must always suffice if we are to get anywhere near the truth.