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Gay sex is harmful

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Image via Wikipedia “Hi, my name is [blank], and I’m a homophobic bigot. “Either that or at least, my Christian beliefs have blinded me to the rights of gay people, and so it’s safe to assume I’ve been utterly lost to humane dialogue on the subject. (Don’t even try. It’ll get ugly.)” This disclaimer may as well be stamped across the foreheads of everyone who disagrees with gay rights. Many have suffered the loss of friends, even jobs, because of this very prejudice about them. Usually they were never asked how they really felt about gay people. Because gay activists always champion love and acceptance, the assumption has sprouted that everyone else is either opposed to the love, happiness, and equal fulfillment of gay people, or at least doesn’t know jack about it. And in fact, many on the pro-family side will end up talking about anything but that; they talk marriage, law, procreation, society, and a million other things that – in one sense – miss the point. Philosophical