how dare you even make the implied comparison that it's somehow equivalent to incest. no, there is no relevance, and there is no comparison to be made between gay people and cousins -- and your phrase "get with the times" is clearly gay-baiting. you're really straining here, and it's really starting to grate on me.
i'm so sick of this debate.
i'm going to say it one last time: homosexuality is EXACTLY the same as heterosexuality, only between people of the same gender. i think the problem is that heterosexuals still don't understand that "gay" isn't only about sex. people like you tend to think of homosexuals as defective straight people with uncontrollable sexual urges, and perhaps a flair for drama and interior design. you don't understand, nor care to understand, that the basis of homosexuality, along with physical attraction, is the emotional orientation towards members of our own sex. clearly, you can't identify with this, or else you're scared of it (I'm not sure which).
and so, like african-americans before me, i'm forced to explain that, really, we're not so different after all. it does take the minority to get the majority to understand that we're not sub-human, that our lives and loves are every bit as worthy and complex and joyful and agonizing as yours are and to rid you of your working assumption of the superiority of heterosexuality (the way that whites assumed racial superiority over african-americans).
don't worry, you'll come around one day. you're not necessarily a bigot, or hateful -- you're just uninformed. and this is why it's so important for people to come out.
it's for your benefit just as much as ours.
