I think you hide behind the “legality” of aberrant behavior. For centuries, homosexuality WAS illegal in many societies. Your arguments fall apart if homosexuality IS against the law, but I am sure you would THEN argue AGAINST the law. I suspect you would make the same arguments about abortion, but your position would be just as weak.

You make judgements about right and wrong, but your real commitment appears to be to deviant behavior and you use any argument that you can find to support it.

If you are gay, God did not make you that way. You had your own identity before God gave you the chance to some to earth. He knows what you need to do to maximize your opportunities in the next life and being gay will limit those opportunities.

You should still be treated well by any decent person, LDS or not, but that does not require special status in the law, like preference in hiring or housing. Nor does being treated equally require ratification of your choices by those who choose differently.

Asking why God made gays is as much a straw man argument as asking why He made Satan (or evil). He made neither. He doesn’t have to approve of or “validate” choices to engage in behavior that limits future opportunities for growth and learning and neither does His church.

Homosexuals are not pedophiles, nor are they law breakers. They are men and women just like you and me who want to be treated equally with law abiding heterosexuals in society. That homosexuality is a sin is simply a religious belief. A BELIEF, and nothing more. There are many Christian denominations who welcome gays, and gay couples into their congregations. There are many churches led gay ministers and pastors. There are many denominations who perform gay marriages and accept them as a blessed union under God of a couple who love one another and want to share their lives together. Unfortunately the LDS faith still doesn’t get it that gays are God’s children too and deserve to be treated as such. A question for the LDS faithful. . . . if “Heavenly Father” believes homosexuality is a sin, why did he make millions of people with that sexual orientation?????

Discrimination based upon one’s sexual orientation is wrong. Discrimination based upon the color of one’s skin is wrong. Discrimination based upon one’s religion is wrong. Discrimination based upon one’s nationality is wrong. Discrimination of any class of people just because they are “different” than you is wrong.

Prejudice and bigotry dressed up as moral values is still prejudice and bigotry.

In the absence of a Supreme Being or some other source of universal moral authority, your system is not any more applicable to others than theirs is to you. IF there is a Supreme Being or God who has declared that homosexuality is a self-defeating behavior that is unacceptable, your system of morality will ultimately be irrelevant.

In a society where pedophilia is not criminal, what is your position?

It is repugnant to me that there are those in Utah who puff themselves up as morally superior to others who are not like themselves, and wish to discriminate against those individuals they have labeled inferior and not deserving of the same rights as everyone else.

Prejudice and bigotry dressed up as moral values, is still prejudice and bigotry.