To be honest my sexual orientation can go (expletive deleted) itself.

It just there.

I would hardly notice it if the world and her girlfriend didn't bring it up everytime I try to live a quiet life.

I'm not going to marry a woman and furnish my family tree with off shoots from myself.

I feel that honesty is served by answering questions when they are raised (at work and family meetings and such) and then some bright spark kicks off somewhere.

I used to have sex.

I've been going out with the same chap for almost a decade and before him I went out with a different same chap for almost a decade I'm now middle aged, it's not a major part of my life anymore.

But because of my past, my life has played out a bit differently. I have had different experiences and in that sense it's had an impact.

I don't worship a gay deity or sing gay hymns or eat special gay food (I don't even like most show tunes).

Mr fleetime is painfully common and after four decades it just wares me down but the crap in his post comes from that Old Testament that people will not chuck away and those letters of Paul.

And if I were a member of a tribe of American first people I might have a problem with the Book of Mormon.

It is importing the Abrahamic tradition to a convenient location.

Not that Natives of the Americas had uniformly benign faith systems.

The Aztecs were clever people, kind to the elderly, great engineers but they did do a bit too much of the ripping out of hearts and dancing around in other people's skin thing.