Xionis, Orthodox anthropology has no category of “gay.” Personhood is not defined by “orientation” given that any passion can effect an orientation. This does not deny the existence of same-sex attraction of course, but it refuses to define a person in terms of this attraction.

However, if you don’t believe God exists, may what I’m about to give you give you the means to investigate God and the taboo lifestyle thoroughly in a responsible serious way. Man can’t tell you how the natural world came to be or very many specifics without you scratching your head, because he is a creation of the Creator. And you listen to yourself; your friends/family; your feelings; or him/her about what to do before examining what God has to say?!

Proving there is a God on your possibly non-religious level: There is so much diversity and complexity with earth and the universe(s) going on continually that only God could sustain them all; provide sustenance through another source(as insects and flowers do); or make them self-sustaining by their very nature. Also, why hasn’t there been something huge(even planet-sized) from outer space ramming into earth that would surely destroy it and why are we just the right distance from the sun to sustain life? Since evidence points to there being a God, how did He make man’s body? He made man’s body heterosexual rather than homosexual. Three things make this apparent: 1. Heterosexuals can have sex in any way that sex can be had. Homosexuality is accidental sex–as any object that is the right size can go into any opening that is the right size. That cannot be a determining factor about sexual design.Plus, two females cannot naturally(as they are born) have sex. 2. Heterosexuals–as animals–produce young that is a “merger” of two families(often very easily). Homosexuality produces only disease(AIDS), if anything. 3. Everybody that chooses to be can be heterosexual, but everybody can’t choose to be homosexual without it destroying the world(by God’s wrath or a combination of AIDS and no new young). I’m just saying that whether you are religious or not, you know homosexuality is wrong! Stand up against it! Don’t be judged for going against God’s holy design! When you go against something or someone that God has deemed holy, you are in real trouble of unrelenting horror and judgment(hell where everything that bad and punishing will be). Please don’t do this; stand up!

“So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.” – Ezekiel 33:7-9 (KJV)

I don’t think single people should be adopting children, unless they are related (which would have the benefit of keeping the child connected with their wider family). I especially do not think homosexuals should be allowed to adopt.

On the bathroom issue… there was no rash of transgendered people being beat up for using a restroom they appeared to be identified with. This issue was pulled out of thin air by the Mayor as a payback to her homosexual supporters… and done in her last term, when she will not have to face the voters again… because if she did, she would go down in flames.

On this principle, then, this group must oppose the adoption of children to single persons, at least so long as they are single.
All things being equal in terms of affluence, culture, etc, yes, I think a heterosexual couple gets the priority consideration in terms of adoption. I’ve been on adoption sites, though, and the number of children who have been forever impacted by their abandonment by their supposedly ideal biological parents is heartbreaking.

Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good, as they say. These children would have been better off being cared for in an environment of stability, love and support, even if in the home of a single parent or gay couple, not being shuttled back and forth between foster homes or in group care.

In terms of this bathroom thing: I don’t get the whole transgender thing. I really don’t. Yet, I don’t think that heterosexual men are who are clearly men are going to use the Texas bill to peep on women in the restrooms. At least not in Texas! There are transgender men and women who are not fully transitioned but who can easily pass who just would not feel safe using the restrooms of their biological gender. I get it. Of course, if they can easily pass, the bill isn’t needed, I suppose, since no one will notice anyhow.