Quote - I do not see the connection between this law, which is similar to many other laws all over the planet, and homosexuals, regardless of the beliefs of the governor of Tokyo. 

I'm also lost at with this as well unless the homosexual culture there is different from other places.  I don't know if they have a violent homosexual culture there or not but from all of the articles I read about the ordinance.  The debate seems to be solely centered on not having 100% freedom to publish any material that the artist wishes.

I personally don't like extremes and wouldn't want to see 100% freedom of anything since that would mean that there is 100% no restriction, and lets face it, if the traffic light didn't restrict movement of traffic then there would be alot deaths. If the law didn't restrict behaviors that are harmful to society then there would be chaos and misery and I think art should also have limitations, especially if the art is harmful to society.

The two most powerful things in the world are Art and Written words.  Both have inspired men and women to high achievements and to the lowes of human behavior. To think that either Writing or Art is weak and doesn't have any affect on humans would be to deny that religious books comfort, poser art, inspires others to buy poser, and Anime and Manga inspires people too dress up at Comic Con as their favorite character. ha ha ha.