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This has been bothering me long enough to finally say something openly, even though I could alienate a lot of people by saying it. I find proponents of homosexuality constantly try to shut up anyone with a differing opinion by lumping them in with the extremists who will not shut up no matter what those proponents say. The result is stifling anything like reasonable discussion: most folks who are reasonable aren't all that into conflict and arguments about this stuff.
Fact: I disapprove of homosexuality.
Fact: Those who state disapproval of homosexuality are called bigots who do not want homosexuals to exist and akin to disliking someone because they have red hair.
Fact: Disagreeing with what someone does has nothing to do with who they are.
My disapproval of homosexual behavior is not at all akin to disliking red hair (which I adore, by the way). I disapprove of sex outside of marriage. I disapprove of adultery. These are all sins according to my faith and beliefs, and yet, guess who else has sinned? Me. Different sins, but so what? Everyone I know has sinned by the standards of my faith, and I have plenty of friends or acquaintances who have done so sexually.
I'm not interested in somebody else's sexual sins. You're a person. You have the freedom to do whatever you please within certain fairly obvious constraints. I don't even care about what you want to do sexually until you bring the battle to me.
Sex outside of marriage is not illegal. Adultery is not illegal. Homosexual behavior is not illegal. But none of these things are specially condoned by law either, and if you ask me to vote to give these behaviors special protection, I won't. I will vote against that. If you ask me to vote to ban these behaviors, I'll tell the federal government, get out of social issues, I don't think so.
You can call me bigoted for not caring about your opinion on other people's sex lives and bigoted for not wanting the government to render an opinion either—for or against, but frankly, you shouldn't care about my opinion either. I will never bother fighting for social approval of who I am, what I do, or what I represent. Either you will love me, hate me, or tolerate me in neutrality, and I don't care which.
Due to the nature of this particular post, I reserve the right to delete any comments that are abusive, vitriolic, etc.
Edited to Add: For future record and complete clarification of a particular point frequently misinterpreted, I believe there is a distinct and significant difference between sexual orientation and sexual conduct. Sexual orientation is a desire; sexual conduct is a choice.
