When I was a little boy things were different, as I suppose they were for you. Society had set patterns laid out for little boys and it was incredibly difficult not to follow those patterns. They were the patterns of education, possible tertiary education, a job, a girlfriend, marriage and children.

I followed the pattern, but about a decade ago I met a true man of God who quite simply persuaded me that I was and had been wrong to lie about myself to the rest of the world. This non-gay, devout Christian enabled me to look at myself to realise that I was actually damaging myself and my family.

I was also helped by the writings of my grandfather and my father which showed very clearly that they had also been gay! They died lonely and embittered men and my Christian friend was desperate that I should not do the same. It was difficult for my family to understand that I had been living a lie, and, despite being prepared to “sleep in the bed I had made”, I decided that I should acknowledge my gayness.

Curiously my self-awareness has enabled me to become much more pro-active in community issues and I feel very comfortable in my life as a counsellor and author. I feel that I have enabled gay young men who had been rejected by their families and society feel that there has been someone able to listen quietly to the stories of their lifestyle with understanding and compassion.

These are Christian ethics and I feel very sad that you, personally, seem to have been by-passed in the acquisition of such skills. They come under a general heading of “Tolerance” which I would urge you to develop before it is too late. Seek for the Love that inside us all and display that Love to the world before you are destroyed by bitterness and hate. Your current path will lead to the destruction of your soul. Allow yourself to be the person you really are before you are forever lost!

There day will cum. I hear God is building a special add on for them. In Hell

And there are some gay men who really do believe that they are, to use RobN’s language, “Nature’s Way” of reducing the population of the earth. We don’t generally reproduce so we don’t increase the population usually, but it’s some need for self-sanctification that causes some gays and lesbians as thinking of themselves as having this “divine” purpose.

It also suggests that heterosexual breeding is a completely helpless and involuntary activity! It’s not. And Planet Earth is fuc*ed if it is!

If you aren´t, you need to learn that (some) people are gay and have the same rights as you to enjoy a happy and abuse-free life…. and if you ARE, you need to learn that this is okay, that you are a valid person who should be respected and not abused just because of your sexuality..

On an entirely different point, you say “Gays, go ahead and teach all young boys to practice homosexuality in order to reduce Earth’ population! That’s your service to Mankind.”

Well dear, I´m not here to perform a ´service to mankind´, but let´s just run with your idea for a minute… Has it not occurred to you that if there IS a god, and if he DOES have a greater plan, then THAT might be precisely the point?

And your service to mankind is what exactly?

To OVER populate the world? Sounds like an intelligent plan that one dear…

But, let me guess, Catholic by any chance?

Congratulations to Gareth for not stooping to his level and just brushing this person off with a single sentence.

Ideally that ‘greater voice’ should be equal but we seem to have governments on both sides who don’t agree. It’s that, we should be fighting so that people like this don’t just get away with their homophobic ideas.

http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/supportus.htm

Now, not that I’m an expert, but doesn’t young Gareth Thomas clean up rather well? He looks like a walking ripple of muscle…

That’s your service to Mankind.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer still.