Not certain Ox but I think he was arrested because Sodomy is seen as illegal in a lot of places still (not sure if it is over here or not), and public sex certainly is if you're caught (hey, if you can get arrested for flashing I don't think a full-on display is gonna be looked upon kindly ), though it didn't get that far in the article. And of course sodomy and being gay is frowned upon in the Christian teachings (and yet you have to love thy neighbour? yet another inconsistancy ) so if its a particularly religious state, their laws will partly be based on that. But not knowing much about American laws thats all speculation on my behalf

Bravo, you are so full of shit. You post a story about gays in San Francisco, and then say you don't want to live there. No one but a simpleton would believe you meant anything other than the obvious interpretation.

As for my mom, I am alive because of fuckers like you that make it OK to hate homosexuals. I am alive because our society made her afraid to accept who she is. It's because of bigotted assholes like you that even more extreme bigots have the courage to torture and kill others because of their physical nature.

Derf, I welcome freedom of expression and choice, within the limits of people I want as part of my society. But guess what, I don't want bigots in my society. I don't want Nazis or their watered down cousins like Bravo. There is a rediculous notion that the freedom a nation upholds should apply to everyone. The truth is that our nation wants these freedoms to apply to its citizens, not everyone. We draw lines about what we allow and what we don't. We make limits about who we want in our nation, and those that make it in are the ones we protect. I don't want bigots in my society. What they offer is far outweighed by the massive cost of their intolerance.

I have nothing against gays, many of my friends are gays and not only that, but they can even openly speak with me about their emotional problems... (as they do). They are people which still suffer alot of discrimination together with the BDSM folk. I do not deny existance of freaks who makes really distasteful exibitions but why some great group of people should be sanctioned because of an small part of it.

Thanks for the question, I'm straight.

Well now that for San Francisco is a bit WOW. Gays ARE natural thing even in the other races of beings but they are NOT meant to be majority of some society which represents well with the natality in that city.

Imo, you did overreact, Pig. You may have seen enough of the sick morons who have nothing else to do but to bother the others because of their own desires but this here was not a way to express it.

Well, I could care less what someone's sexual preference is. Figured that out a long time ago when I realized a friend of mine was gay... knowing vs. not knowing really didn't change who he was, so I guess it's ok. Since then I've met alot of really cool gay guys (and a few chicks, too), so I quit caring altogether. Being an atheist, there is no right and wrong to me, so that whole argument doesn't apply. So, at any rate, I think everyone here should have a beer.