Gays, lesbians, bisexuals

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Originally Posted by The Gaffer

Hats off to IR for calling a spade a spade.

I could very well point out, in a dispassionate and academic manner, that men of african origin have a higher rate of prostate cancer, or that mountaineers have a higher rate of calling in the goddam air ambulance than the rest of the population and therefore they are a burden on the rest of us.

But the real point, and one that I'm disappointed you don't seem to get behind, Rian, is that gays are the way they are, there is value in who they are and how they love, in and of themselves just like everybody else, and they have a RIGHT to express themselves sexually.

This is particularly the case when one starts from a first principle of equality. Were this NOT the case, the implication is that we do not have equality between people of different sexual orientation and therefore we have grounds to discriminate against them.

The purpose of all this unseemly data trawling and spin is to undermine that essential proposition of equality, and that's why it's homophobic.

SO well said.