How do I feel about the current fad of pushing Gay rights?

Well first of all I should be clear that it is the pushing of Gay rights that is a current fad--homosexual behavior has been around for a very long time and will be.   It is just the promotion of, not just the acceptance of, homosexuality that is the fad right now.  That is fairly recent.

The Gay rights movement is not at all like the Civil rights movement.   Civil rights was an effort to equalize where people had been historically discriminated against because of the color of the skin given to them by their parents.  That is something they cannot control or change or hide.  Some will argue that Homosexuality is something that a person is born with.  I don't think that is true.  There may be some that do have some tendencies that they are born with that might lead them down that path but it is something they can control and they can hide.

Now I know I've already angered some by the use of the word hide, and perhaps there is a better way to say this.  But the point is someone who was black in the pre-1960's USA could not avoid discrimination because the tool that was used to discriminate them was permanently physically visible.  Whether someone is, was, or will be gay is not.  I'm not suggesting that either should ever have to hide, merely that one could and the other could not.

Regardless of what I say here some with think "He just doesn't understand".  But if you have that thought, please make the thought a complete one by continuing it with "the way I do."  That is a completely true and correct sentiment whatever side of the issue you are on.  I don't understand it the way you do.  I understand it the way I do.  My understanding may be incomplete but that doesn't make it wrong.

I happen to firmly believe that most gay people are blessed with an innate gift to love and empathize that is far greater than many straight people.  I think that is something that should be celebrated. 

All people have sexual desires.  One of the things that does is cause men and women to come together and reproduce.  That is pretty critical for any species.  When they do and they stay together and parent the offspring together the society is better than it otherwise would be.  But lets say the father has those desires towards many women or that mother has them towards many men, or heaven forbid, their own children.  Should they act on those desires?  No.  If they do it wounds the other.  Their relationship and their children suffer.  They often split and so their children suffer more.  And so they control those desires and do not act. 

As a society we expect that individuals do not act on every desire they have but instead put guidelines in place that help preserve order and that benefit the thriving of the society and all its members. 

Love and sexual attraction and sex are all very different things.  One may love many of either gender and may feel attracted toward many of either gender but should only ever have sex with one and that sex should at least be capable of producing children.