One thing I find encouraging on here!

[Statler Waldorf]

What's this about "allowing?" In a free society, there's a moral imperative to support the freedoms of your fellow citizens. You don't ALLOW freedom-- you fight for it.

Wait, why is there such a moral imperative? Where did it come from? Which freedoms must I support?

I get the impression that a lot of anti-homosexual rights supporters tend to perceive homosexuals as sub-human; as being gay somehow means your worth is less than a straight person, as though sexuality is the sole determinant as to how others perceive you.

[Emphasis added by SW]

Question-begging epithets do not add any support to one’s argument.
Being gay (whatever that even means) is not the issue; it’s sodomizing other men that is the issue. The gay community has brought a lot of that perception upon themselves by hyper-sexualizing themselves, have you ever seen a gay rights parade? Let’s just say, they are a bit more lewd than my hometown Labor Day parade.

A lot of them act as though the rapture is going to happen because (for example) gay marriage is being legalised throughout the western world. Why I've got no idea. Scaremongering I guess.

I do not believe in a secret rapture.

1) The bible doesn't just say this. The bible says a man can have multiple wives.

Where?

The very definition of marriage has changed.

Nope, it’s still a union between one man and one woman.

Why should this be different for homosexuals?

It’s not, marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman for homosexuals too, that’s the entire point. We do not arbitrarily define words for different groups of people.

The only real reason to be against homosexuals, either in general or to stop them marrying, is just pure hatred towards them.

This is such simplistic thinking. Does that mean that I hate polygamists because I do not support their “right” to get married?

We have scientific evidence that it's genetic, but that doesn't seem to mean a lot to some people.

As is alcoholism, that still does not mean I have to morally support the behavior.

And even if it was a choice, so what? I still see no reason to be angry about it.

No anger here.

I have always found it somewhat baffling from an evolutionary point of view, as a homosexual is not a rival for possible mates. Where does all this hate come from?

A better question would be, where does homosexuality come from? How does a condition that does not generationally progress the species get preserved in a population of organisms? Good luck on that one.

I honestly think that there's less hohophobia than there used to be, at least in Europe and, probably, in the States, at least among younger people.

Which part of Europe? Not Eastern for sure.

One problem is that America is a lot more religious than Europe

Good.

When the issue is phrased as 'everyone should have the same rights' it becomes difficult to keep arguing for the persecution of gay people.

Everyone does have the same rights.