"Same sex relationships are not causing harm to any other person nor threatening heterosexual relationships.

Amen to that!

The religious mindset seems awfully selfish in dictating other peoples lives.

Runner, you can preach to them all you like, its not against the law...yet, but your idea for leading my life, well....I will keep a civil tongue in mind.

CACTUS

Pelican you write

' The key is surely freedom of the individual and minimal interference by the State where there is no harm or great inconvenience to others.'
Who other than the homosexuals themselves are looking for more State interference with things? There is also plenty of harm done to kids deprived of a father. Just look at the Prisons and stop burying your head in the sand,

Runner,
True! Prisons are full of homosexual acts and in many cases not consenting.

90% of statistics are made up by the author to make a point.

This stat claimed by the author confirms that same sex preference is a educative process not at all a product of nature.

Precisely the reason sexual preference is not a family matter therefore potentially circumventive of the normal process of growing up.

I would be more comfortable after reading this trumped up tripe, if the natural space between the tub thumping same sex advocates such as this poster and children be maintained. Before education ends up holding dominion over physiology, and the views of a remarkably small number of self interested and misguided people hold dominion over nature.

runner
How are the homosexuals looking for more interfence by the State. Arguing for equal rights to marriage under legislation is hardly interference when those rights are available to others.

I don't want to see kids deprived of a father either (or a mother) and the prisons are full of people from disadvantaged backgrounds mainly. High divorce rates and abandonment issues due to violence and poverty are not uncommon in these situations.

Divorce does not deprive kids of a father only an environment where two parents live in the same house, which is the ideal of course unless violence or misery mars that idyllic existence.

You still have not convinced me what harm there is especially in relation to this thread where the women polled are past menopause and clearly not of an age to have any more children. There is no issue of fatherlessness.

It is common knowledge that men don't look at women over 40 anyway so what does it matter. :)