Originally Posted by
Doc Alan
There may be up to 10% of the world's population are homosexual. No one knows for certain - President Ahmedinejad claims there are none in Iran - but it's probably a similar proportion in most countries.
I neither have time nor inclination to watch "Modern Family", "Brokeback Mountain", lesbian porn, or read the bible.
However most enlightened people, including doctors, realise
it's not an illness. No one knows for sure what determines sexual orientation. There are certainly health consequences - although AIDS for example is commoner in heterosexuals in the UK - and verbal or physical violence. Doctors treat the consequences but would not attempt to change sexual orientation without informed consent.
The majority of homosexuals are not high profile like Elton John and David Furnish. I have friends here and in the Philippines who are homosexual - I don't consider myself trendy by having such friends. They don't attempt to change my heterosexual orientation.
Many people change their views and become more tolerant if they actually know homosexuals, and it's not uncommon for them to change their views when they discover a member of their own family is gay - worse could happen.
