Jim,
posting with a deliberately faked identity to feign support for your otherwise unsupported argument,

Not what I did.
Look it up Jim.

Steve,
The whole thing is in his own hands: he avoids posting nonsense about gay people, he stops being criticised.

He is entitled to his views, and is happy to defend them.
He would welcome you to challenge them in debate, but that is not what you do.
If you could you would, but you can't, so you resort to abuse.
When a whole gang of you does that on thread after thread, that IS persecution.

Like many, he disagrees with SS marriage and says so.
There is nothing wrong with doing that.
His statements about promiscuity and infection rates are factual.
He does not denigrate anyone for being gay.
You should all get off his back.