Whilst you are of course, entitled to your opinion
It totally smacks of a cop out, and a veiled prejudice
Read what you wrote, when you mention incest and such
Imagine replacing homosexuality with a different prejudice in that line, 1 that perhaps you do not agree with, like, black people, or Hispanics or Muslims, or something like that
I suspect you might be more than a little outraged, at such a sentence
I've always said, that veiled prejudice is the worst kind
Its bad enough when for instance, somebody comes out and says ' I'm rascist'
But at least they own that prejudice, and are straightforward and honest about it
I always find it far worse, when for instance somebody when asked, will say ' no, I'm not rascist' , but you don't have to dig too deep, to find out, that actually, they are

Is anyone on this thread even close friends\have family that are gay? How can one judge whom they do not know. My gay brother was deeply religious, married a woman and was miserable. He came out at 40.
I knew he was gay when he was in his 20's.

They think like us in all aspects, except they are same sex attracted.

Again, that smacks of a cop out
Describing it, as a behaviour
1 does not choose 1s sexuality, choose as 1 does not choose 1s ethnicity

Copping out of admitting , or rather, facing up to the fact, that you are clearly prejudice towards homosexuals

Do they have to lead a sexless life?
Can they never kiss somebody in a passionate manner?

Its like your saying, well, it's okay to be born having an attraction to somebody of the same sex, just so long as you don't kiss them, I don't dissaprove of you being born that way, but I do disagree should you choose to kiss somebody

It's kind of like saying, I don't dissaprove of black people, but I do dissaprove of them not 'doing a Michael Jackson' and turning their skin white

This does smack of how a politician may speak

Put another way then

It's like saying, I am not sexist, or maybe I am, I do not think less of women, but I do think, they should choose to have a sex change, and become a man, I do think less of them for not making this choice, but that does not make me sexist, or maybe it does

But your definition of engaging in a homosexual practice as 'a poor choice' , ranking it ( or at least relating it, with your sentence structure, and choice of vocabulary ) , alongside, smoking, swearing, adultery, bestiatly and incest, tells a different story
And I really don't feel, that you are unaware of that
It's just like a 'cop out clause' so you can stand up in church, or look at yourself in the mirror, and say ' I am not prejudice, it's all semantics really'

I have too many of my own sins to deal with to worry about things that may or may not be sin for another person. Homosexuality is not a problem for me.

I hear you.
Not my problem.
I do pray they will accept Gods plan and psychiatric help.

Here are a few quotes
And a poem

'It's funny how we know gay people exsist and we don't have proof of God, but we deny gay people basic human rights, because it might piss God off '

" I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You're not scared. You're an πrsehole."--Morgan Freeman

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"--Author Ernest J. Gaines


"When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."--Barack Obama

"It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly."--Jason Bateman

"All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more - and no less - heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil-rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to 'fix what ain't right' in our society."--Senator Tammy Baldwin

I dreamed I stood upon a little hill,
And at my feet there lay a ground, that seemed
Like a waste garden, flowering at its will
With buds and blossoms. There were pools that dreamed
Black and unruffled; there were white lilies
A few, and crocuses, and violets
Purple or pale, snake-like fritillaries
Scarce seen for the rank grass, and through green nets
Blue eyes of shy pervenche winked in the sun.
And there were curious flowers, before unknown,
Flowers that were stained with moonlight, or with shades
Of Nature's wilful moods; and here a one
That had drunk in the transitory tone
Of one brief moment in a sunset; blades
Of grass that in an hundred springs had been
Slowly but exquisitely nurtured by the stars,
And watered with the scented dew long cupped
In lilies, that for rays of sun had seen
Only God's glory, for never a sunrise mars
The luminous air of Heaven. Beyond, abrupt,
A grey stone wall, o'ergrown with velvet moss
Uprose; and gazing I stood long, all mazed
To see a place so strange, so sweet, so fair.
And as I stood and marvelled, lo! across
The garden came a youth; one hand he raised
To shield him from the sun, his wind-tossed hair
Was twined with flowers, and in his hand he bore
A purple bunch of bursting grapes, his eyes
Were clear as crystal, naked all was he,
White as the snow on pathless mountains frore,
Red were his lips as red wine-spilith that dyes
A marble floor, his brow chalcedony.
And he came near me, with his lips uncurled
And kind, and caught my hand and kissed my mouth,
And gave me grapes to eat, and said, 'Sweet friend,
Come I will show thee shadows of the world
And images of life. See from the South
Comes the pale pageant that hath never an end.'
And lo! within the garden of my dream
I saw two walking on a shining plain
Of golden light. The one did joyous seem
And fair and blooming, and a sweet refrain
Came from his lips; he sang of pretty maids
And joyous love of comely girl and boy,
His eyes were bright, and 'mid the dancing blades
Of golden grass his feet did trip for joy;
And in his hand he held an ivory lute
With strings of gold that were as maidens' hair,
And sang with voice as tuneful as a flute,
And round his neck three chains of roses were.
But he that was his comrade walked aside;
He was full sad and sweet, and his large eyes
Were strange with wondrous brightness, staring wide
With gazing; and he sighed with many sighs
That moved me, and his cheeks were wan and white
Like pallid lilies, and his lips were red
Like poppies, and his hands he clenched tight,
And yet again unclenched, and his head
Was wreathed with moon-flowers pale as lips of death.
A purple robe he wore, o'erwrought in gold
With the device of a great snake, whose breath
Was fiery flame: which when I did behold
I fell a-weeping, and I cried, 'Sweet youth,
Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove
These pleasant realms? I pray thee speak me sooth
What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.'
Then straight the first did turn himself to me
And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame,
But I am Love, and I was wont to be
Alone in this fair garden, till he came
Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.'
Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
I am the Love that dare not speak its name.'

Two loves, by Lord Alfred Douglas

But 2 straight people get married, and have sex, presumably that is a ' good choice ' in your eyes, so, your, cool with that

But if 2 gay people, get married, and have sex, presumably that is a ' bad choice ' in your eyes, so, your not cool with that

And all of this, does not make you prejudice towards gay people in any shape or fashion.
You are only prejudice of the choices they make!?

Pull the other 1 ms harmony, 'I toked but I did not inhale, and I definitely did not have sexual relations with that woman '