I'm not gay, and I think all the hand wringing over gays - their "life style", their rights under the law, their threat to humanity - is bunk. Utter, bigoted bunk. They are different in one respect only, their sexual orientation. To know any of them personally is to understand that they are human beings who deserve every right and privilege afforded to everyone else. This seems so obvious and simple that I have absolutely no sympathy for the "arguments" against them.

As for reproduction: we are doing way too fine of a job. The poster above sounds the alarm that industrial countries are underperforming in making citizens. This is nonsense. The human population, especially of the industrial nations, is putting such a strain on the planet that we run the risk of spoiling the whole thing. It won't matter a whit if you are gay or straight when all people are as sterile as the atmosphere we have created.

Okay, so I exaggerate, but only a little.