[Zinkovich]

The only other "problem" I have with them is when they get half-naked and go prancing down Main Street to celebrate their "arrival" to mainstream America. No, I don't have a problem with their wanting to party--just with the fact that they seem to think that the street is the appropriate place for such excesses of sexual display.

Do you have issues against Mardi Gras, and mass protestations on issues such as abortion as well, then?

As for them doing it as a small group, well, "we" get drunk and stagger around like everybody else. It doesn't justify anything, I'm just saying it most certianly not is an action exclusive to gays- no, its common amongst partiers in general.

We occasionally argue about one thing or another relating to their lifestyle choices, (when we discuss it at all) but few will deny that it is neither safe nor healthy, when viewed under the klieg lights of stark reality.

I'm sorry, but I have yet to see any danger stem from homosexuality in and of itself. There are some more...risque....cultures that are a bit dangerous(such as the whole meth/"Crystal" scene leftover from the 80's), but people who behave within such a cultural meme are slowly becoming the minority.

I mentioned no individual or specific acts, in an attempt to generalize from the specific, which, if I interpret your musings correctly, is your charge. But in the interest of clarity, subjugating propriety, I will only say that my mention of the gay lifestyle's inherent dangers reference only current realities, vis a vis AIDS and its likely appearance in the lives of those who insist on the indiscriminate release of ejaculates into each other's hirsute nether regions. To attempt to censor with ridicule, by complaining that one unfairly warns of this deadly likelyhood when pointing to a few cases, is to pervert logical argument in a desparate ploy to support the unsupportable with what can best be described as blatant, ideologically driven propaganda.

AIDs wouldn't be as much of a problem amongst the "community" if more of us were careful, in my opinion. Unfortunately, many of the less bright of my homosexual brethren think that anal sex should not need a condom for safety at all, thus compounding the problem.

The cause of the aids endemic is not homosexuality, but careless homosexuals, form my experience. I'm sure you can see many similar consequences from the carelessness in the younger of your hetero brethren with that whole "teen pregnancy pandemic" I hear so much about.

If you can back up the spinmobile several leagues, you'll notice that I never used the reference to my friends as proof of anything. I make my argument against the safety of anal sex based solely on its likely transmission of disease..........or will you now postulate that homosexuals are not the overwhelming victims of AIDS because of their proclivity toward such behavior?

First testing, then to be extra safe use FUCKING CONDOMS. Jesus Christ, I try to drill it into the head of everyone I know who participates in anal, whether gay or straight, but for some reason the large majority of people are just too stupid to listen to me.

Put it this way: a straight couple, biologically speaking, can get aids just as easily when participating in coital activities without protection. There is nothing biologically increasing the chance of homosexuals getting aids.

Oh wait.............but the fact of disproportionate levels of this deadly disease among gays proves nothing about any specific person, so it is to be discounted as irrelevant to any discussion of the "lifestyle", is that how the logic goes?

No, the logic goes that homosexuals that get aids are just either really stupid, really reckless, or just plain uninformed.