[QUOTE="Lockedge"][QUOTE="omho88"] I am a rebel too in my own way ... but rebelling on everything isn't really my thing ,,, I dun rebel for the sake or rebelling .... I do it when I see that the world can be better when this thing changes to that ,,,, I dun really see how the world can be a better place if we allowed same sex marriage for example !!!omho88
I can understand why you think that way, but it's all coming from the fact that we have differing perspectives on this. You're seeing same sex couples as a whole, as a collective mass. It's a lot different to be friends (or family) with gay or lesbian individuals, and to see how such things would affect their lives, their happiness. If you scaled it down to an individual level, it would be easier to sympathize, to see that they're like you, just with one aspect of their identity being different. It's harder to wonder what the benefits of same sex marriage on society would be if you don't have that personal connection. It's a lot easier to chalk it up as a choice when you aren't there to understand how much they can be hurt by such assertions, but the stigma surrounding their sexuality, surrounding all LGBT individuals.
I've had friends break down in my living room, weeping and angry at themselves for not being able to attracted to the opposite sex or feeling foreign in their own bodies, for being disowned by their families for a single aspect of themselves. I've visited a friend in the hospital (no serious injuries, luckily) after he was attacked by someone for being gay Friends of mine, as well as myself I suppose, have experienced great difficult getting housing because of aspects of ourselves that are 'deviant'. I've had friends who have broken under the pressure of coming out in a...more permanent way.
The opinion that people shouldn't be 'publically gay is fine enough when it remains an opinion. However, there are those in this world who sitr crap up and get people angry about LGBT people, and suddenly those opinions get infused with a bit of hatred and anger. LGBT people are afforded less humanity and are seen not as individuals, but as a collective, and sometimes as a physical representation of an agenda. That kind of twisted opinion is what puts people like my friend in the hospital, it's what urges parents to kick their own children out or abuse them.
It's not as simple as "Eh, I'm not comfortable with the gays, so I don't want society to support them. I'm fine with them, I just don't want to see that stuff in public." That kind of thinking infuses how society works, and it harms people. It tells them they're less capable of loving, they're less worthy of love, they're not capable of being decent human beings, they're exual deviants and sexual predators, etc. We can decide whether or not to listen to them, but only to an extent. We don't hold a lot of power, and we can be bullied around pretty easily.
The world would be a better place if more people treated people as individuals, and understood that love is a great universal thing that brings happiness, and that there are variations in how it can be expressed.
I do feel sorry for this kind of accidents, I do wish they could stop .... I dun wish for anyone to be hurt, but gays should know they are different, they should accept it and live accordingly ... some extremists believe they should be excuted/die or wutever but I dun think this would be a cure, it's my respect for their humanity that makes me against their death, but I still believe restrictions should be put to this kind of behaviour. I am sorry but I really dun understand the idea of such kind of love to a man :? . You don't understand something, therefore you want them gone? What kind of logic is that? I don't understand you, therefore you should be gone. 
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