Quote - The relentless labelling, cognitive dissonace, whole/part fallacies and pressure to accept accept accept accept is what is causing any so called phobia in this country about gays, not the actual lifestyle of being gay. You can't pressure or force people to be your friend. That is the best way to gaurentee people won't be your friend.

While I'll go so far in agreeing with this, might it not be that this is a better tactic to, say, stop discrimination, gay-bashing, gay-hate crimes, outright murder, and so on (yeah, there's more) than say we all band together into a militant group of vigilantes and take revenge on others to force acceptance?

The idea of 'going into schools'  is an attempt to remove the socially accepted stigma associated with a natural process that is estimated to cover 10% of the population (that's not like two people).  I go with Kinsey - sexuality isn't "YOU'RE HETEROSEXUAL AND YOU'RE HOMOSEXUAL".  Thems the words of idiots.  And if you think differently, you don't get out much.  It is a nice false dichotomy - always good for segregation and 'us and them' mentalities.  The problem is that it is too often characterized as 'abnormal' (even a pathology) when it is not - it is just a trait.  It is just a trait that has garnered its stigma over thousands of years - and it is well engrained - in politics, in religion, in social structures, in institutions.  Can't tear down the wall by hiding behind it...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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