re: #56 SanFranciscoZionist

My own observation is that straight men who feel OK about their sexuality and that of others would, in fact, prefer not to dwell on the mechanics of sex between men. They are happy to support it in an abstract way, but will beg not to be given any details.

Got me pegged there, I have absolutely no interest in knowing, no interest in considering it, and still find the entire idea just really…”icky” However just because a photo/video of a man kissing another man or seeing men being amorous with each other in public is distasteful to me is not enough reason for me to want to outlaw/ostracize them.

I am 100% attracted to women, but I have read enough, talked enough, shared enough, to realize that some men are simply born being attracted to other men (and some women to women too). It doesn’t matter that I find it distasteful myself, I do not and should not have the right to tell them that whatever person of whatever sex is attractive to them is a perversion and/or a sin.

As a straight I find it hard to understand and easy to disagree with what some call a “Chosen lifestyle.” But I know that it is not chosen, I didn’t sit down one day and decide between whether boys or girls would excite me, I had no choice in the matter. I accept as fact that neither did they, so I support them as best I can.

If my fundamentalist upbringing had taken hold early on, and I had an attraction to other boys? My only option would have been to deny my “perversion” and instead to attack the cause of my sinful thoughts. Namely gays…

I think we are seeing this far more than most people realize. Even after all the “evangelical” gay sex scandals over the last 20 years or so.