You would put a homosexual in the same catergory as a murderer, a rapist????
I guess its story time. I once thought that all homosexuals were just limp wristed, wastes of humanity when I was a young man. I joined the Army at seventeen, was sent to SE Asia three weeks after my 18th birthday, I was a Helicopter Crewchief/Doorgunner.
During this time I was lucky enough to meet some very brave men, a group I befriended and flew in and out of many LZ's was a LRRP unit. For those of you who do not know who they were, Long Range Recon Patrol units were a five to ten man team who were dropped into suspected enemy territory to recon and report enemy activity. They were always in the thick of it folks...
In this LRRP team were two guys, they had done two tours by the time I met them, they joined the Army from the same hometown and joined on the buddy system. These guys had saved everyone of their team several times over, always lent advice to the FNG's, (Fkin new guys) and were friends to all. They were respected men, and could kick butt with the team in a bar brawl, or sit in the mud and blood for hours without a sound.
No one really knew them beyond us calling them the twins, because where one was at, the other was near. When it came time for them to ETS (Leave country and the Army) we all decided it was fitting to throw our usual party, so with whiskey and Komsi we proceeded to get wasted. Each of us were telling the group what we were going to do when we got out, when one of the twins came out and said "When we get back, myself and Sam are moving in together where we will be the rest of our lives".. This brought my drunken doorgunner to tears and he replied "Good for you!" then promptly passed out...
You see it seems that these guys were gay, they joined the Army to escape the prejudice of a small town.. They were two of the most courageous men I have ever known and demand more respect than to be compared with rapists, murderers, and thieves... What is normal and good? The preacher that takes little girls into his office for a good spanking? The gay basher that beats up gay men because they are different? The guy who beats up his girlfriend because he is afraid to admit he is gay?