I’d like to point out that most of the anti-gay posters have simply brought up ‘issues’ with gay people that aren’t exclusive to gays: douchiness being a prime example. Sure there are douche gays, but for every one of them, there’s a hundred douche straight people. Why so steep? Cuz there’s that many more straight people.
Oh, and I’ve been toying around with this thought, thinking bout posting it this entire thread, and now that somebody has said it, I will restate it. With higher acceptance of gays (which hopefully really IS on the rise), means more gays won’t force themselves to act straight, and the population growth would slow, not by much, but probably over a few decades enough to show some effects, such as a slight lessening of unemployment and other such things.
About gayness being a life-style, it kind of is, but it’s forced upon them, and they CAN fight it, but with serious mental-health risks. It falls under the category of habits, attitudes, tastes, and moral standards (not in a bad way, just that gays usually aren’t anti-gays, unless it wasn’t already apparent!). Oh, and if I don’t like pancakes (which I do like) today, I can’t really change that. I know that’s taking taste at the lowest literal level, but it was the best example I could shoot off the top of my head.