I observe that gays are a collective voting harm to themselves unknowingly in gay pride agenda. A disproportionate number have emergent addiction problems stemming from un-challenged instinctive male visual/hunter sex-drive (lacking female nesting/nurture influence). This visual/hunter drive becomes a habit difficult to break, which then patterns habituatiation into parallel drug and alcohol abuse. So, a disproportionate number of gays end up in SLAA, AA and NA 12-step programs with ruined lives - or just plain dead. Too many choose to be single (studies show lifepartner pairing extends lifespan). A disproportate number of gays choose promiscuity correlated with high morbidity health-risks physical and psychological. For children, of course, less aware of repercussions in choices, gay rights can unintentionally lead to harm. Should the collective continue to raise the age-of-consent from 14 to 20 to 30 to protect more naive people? I've met 45 year old men who don't choose wisely! Let the "collective" decide?

Should we then have the "collective" investigate each of our chices, to interfere with each of our decisions (the technology is available) so it can vote how best we should live and defend ourselves?

So the issue becomes a political one. I am a libertarian, often disagreeing with destructive advice I find in "The GUIDE", but I try to be an advocate also. I challenge gays to learn more rather than vote away our rights to any collective. We share a common bond in the belief that control is dangerous because the controllers (we, as any group) are often poorly informed.

Joel H.