All religionists are obviously going to lobby against sexual perversion; they would be failing in what they see as their duty if they did not. That this author is railing against the obvious is a waste of his own hot air. The fact that there is any discussion at all about ‘gay rights’ is a waste of time - time that could be spent on far more important matters affecting normal, decent people who really don’t want to know what ‘gay’ people get up to as long as they don’t infect the rest of us.

Bleating on about “religious conservatives” has become as boring as the proverbial bat manure. My own tolerance of religion is close enough to zero, but if there needs to be a toss up between homosexuals and religionists (often misguided, but usually sincere and decent) I’ll settle for the relative harmlessness of religion any day.

My opinion is that homosexuality is an unnatural abomination - and I’m an atheist

Leigh

Just as well your are an atheist because you wouldn't get to heaven with your level of bigotry

Unfortunately, they are just one of hunderds of minority groups and whilst they have some impact, it is not as major as the pinks would have us believe.

Yes its important, but not as important as the views of the silent majority who may not entirely agree with these views, therefore Johnny and Kevvie wont be swooning them or making promises thats for sure.

Greetings,

I extend my thanks to the author of this accurate article. The research/insights are correct in my view as an analytic psychotherapist and living in a suburban area with many gay people.

Re: Comment

I feel profoundly sorry for you in your hated. You are incredibly wrong on many counts:

1. A growing number of people with religious beliefs, like my parents (elders of the Church), completely accepts gay people and do not fail in their duty as Christians by simply not being a bigot. They express love, understanding and acceptance.

2. Wow, where do we start here… Firstly we need to replace ‘gay’ rights with ‘human rights’, it is at the core of this issue and same sex couples are, believe it or not Leigh… human beings. The definition of ‘normal’ is certainly debated and in psychologically accepted terms being homosexual is rather normal for around 10% or the world’s population. In terms of decent people?.. Well I assume we are not talking about you so we should move on to the next some what inflammatory and idiocy exposing point. You seem to care a lot about what homosexuals ‘get up to’ as that sort of thing was not mentioned at all in the article, careful Leigh you might protest too much there. In relation to infection; I would think the danger of incredible stupidity virus (ISV) is great! Take precautions Leigh, perhaps a finger and mouth restraining apparatus?

3. Perhaps before you ‘toss’ anything up you should have a little look back on the last 3000 odd years of history and have a look at just how innocuous (means harmless Leigh) religion has been – You certainly don’t see gay people strapping themselves with gelignite and running into cafes.

My opinion is that you are a bigot and your thinking is an abomination – I am a free thinking behavioralist .

And rest assured I will be using my considerable resources and influence to support even your rights as a human regardless of your beliefs.

thinks4self,

You and others may carry on your homosexual practices; there is no law against it in Australia. But, please: keep it to yourselves. The rest of us are bored rigid with gay squealing

Personally I have more respect for Bob Brown than Mr Rudd on this issue. Why? Because though I have opposite views to him he does not put on some mask and hide behind being a 'liberal Christian' hoping to somehow gain the votes of those who find homosexual behaviour wrong. I have to agree with the author that while I admire the Australian Christian Lobby they are wasting a lot of money and time trying to get straight answers from pollies who are often to gutless to make a stand one way or the other. Our local Liberal candidate is like that. It does give me a dilemma on who to vote for believe it or not.