THIS. THIS SO MUCH. This is going to be a long post, coincidentally, for which I apologize and feel I should apprise you of.

It always annoys me when "certain" people portray ALL homosexuals (and bisexuals as well, presumably?) as being only into "sex", and therefore almost, if not exactly, as dangerous as a pedophile in terms of influence on children... something obviously ludicrous, as there's quite a difference between an adult attracted to adults of the same sex, and an adult attracted to children.

But try telling that to someone who thinks any "deviation" is a "perversion" and any "perversion" is a sin and practically any sin is equivalent to any other... and that children are not actual living, rapidly developing human beings, but rather some sort of blank slate that has to be shielded from any unapproved colors of chalk (and, extending the analogy a little further, any unapproved colors of chalk can, and of course must, be erased, post-haste!).

Now, is it true that there are some real horndogs out there that happen to be gay (or bi)? Well, yes. I even know a "horndog" bisexual male, whose friends joke that he'll "[boink] anything that stands still long enough"; I also know a bi female who is quite randy... but the same is true of heterosexuals nowadays. In fact, just based on the people of all orientations that I happen to know, I would bet dollars to donuts that the proportional ratio of "sex-crazed" gays and straights is pretty much equal.

Meanwhile, part of the reason I'M not in a state of considering myself "heterosexual" is precisely because my First Love (in addition to most of the attractions since) was female... and NOT for sexual reasons, as amazing as that may sound to those too stupid to realize that "gay" isn't synonymous with "horny pervert".

No, I fell in love precisely because I felt a deep, inscrutably, transcendentally powerful connection. I didn't want to "f*** her"; I wanted to kiss, and hold, and laugh and cry with, and yes, possibly even die for her. I'd have taken a bullet for that girl, and this is coming from someone who has never had a firm belief in any kind of afterlife, so mind you that's nothing to sneeze at particularly since it was unrequited.

It was only well after my time in contact with her, which quite notably happened well before I was a legal adult, that I started noticing the physical beauty of women as well and realizing I generally preferred it to the male form. And just because I can see myself kissing, caressing, even having sexual relations with a woman... does not mean I would do it with just ANY woman. The heart has to come first, and always will. In fact, as my current kind-of-partner can tell you, I move almost infuriatingly slowly when it comes to sex!

So count me in the camp of "sick and tired of being assumed to be some kind of sexual pervert who wants to corrupt the chillins just because I'm attracted to people of the same sex/gender". A lot of the reactionary idiots whose first instinct is to scream "SAVE THE CHILDREN!" have both no concept of what a child actually is, and no concept of just how emotionally similar gays and bisexuals actually are to heteros. People are people no matter what their "orientation" is.

Which ironically is a message I think Jesus would have approved of, since homosexuals and bisexuals are one of the few groups He didn't publicly preach against, despite the fact mind you that the people he was preaching to lived under the oppressive rule of pagan Rome, one of the horniest cultures that ever lived and certainly not one that failed to see homosexuality and bisexuality as perfectly acceptable. So, you know, it's not like He could have really just "forgotten" to cover it and if He had really felt it was so sinful, He would have said so; particularly since His native Jewish culture wasn't particularly accepting of homosexual behavior and it's not like He would have been opposed to riling a few conservatives even if it had been, since He was never afraid to 'speak truth to power' as it were (turning the money-changing tables over in the temple, anyone?).

Seriously, read your New Testament. There is nothing in the four major Gospels that cover Jesus' life and teachings that actually even mentions homosexuality! The only stuff in the NT that does is from folks like Paul, who came after Jesus and actually in some places sort of contradicts Him a little. Jesus did not hate the gays, something that seems to have curiously flown right over the heads of many modern "fundamentalist" so-called Christians.

He did however, preach a considerable amount against hypocrites who are oh-so-public about how "righteous" they are in supposed contrast to everyone else, but don't back it up with actual faith in God, humility, or love and kindness for others, and are in fact selfish jerks. (See in particular: Matthew 7).

...so, yeah. Suffice it to say I am not enamored of the people who make these "Save the children!" arguments. At all.