ray_afraid said:

I hate cigarettes, but I have many friends who smoke 'em. Right in front of me even. I don't hate or even dis-like them for it, but I don't condone it, like it or support it.

Is that similar?

Maybe your reaction is similar to the reactions, some, or much, people have towards homosexual people.

But there are some differences between being a smoker and being homosexual:

Smoking is an addiction, also it is something people volunteer started. Smoking is drug using. So, you may choose being a smoker, but it is no choice of beeing homosexual or heterosexcual.

Other similarity: A smoker can choose, if he want to smoke in public. Also it is a choose, if sexualiuty is lived out free in public.

But while a heterosexual couple kissing in public is indeed something ordinary around these days, homosexuals kissing in public is not.

I think the biggest mistake is, that people believe that sexuality is a thing to choose. Somewhere I read a nice adviose to homophobic parents, who want ther children to sstop beeing homosexual: "If it is just something your children chose to anger you, then you can stop beeing a heterosexual for the time of a month. Go get started."

One point is that heterosexual people tend to associate their sexuality as "state of the art", because it is the most common sexuality, also it is the kind of sexuality that tend to reproduce live. This would maybe somekind of true, if sexual expressions would only be for reproduction, but hum,ans have another important point with sex: Thex express love to each other. (Okay: some pople use sex to show who is the boss, to feel superior, and so on, but this is the evil side of mankind. That are the true beeings who shall prosecuted. And you found such evil behaviour at heterosexuals and homosexuals as well.)