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  PaulB - what I dont like is this assumption that someone is 'homophobic' just because they dont sign up to the full homosexual rights agenda.
  
  Someone's sexual preference is for them. I frankly dont care what it is, it is an irrelivance in most respects as far as I am concerned. Violence and bullying against people because of their sexual orientation or for any other reason in totally wrong.
  
  I approve of the Civil Partnerships primarily because, in my profession, I see where financial injustice can apply to homosexual couples compared to married couples if CP were not available. Hetero couples can choose to marry or not and it is a matter of basic freedom and justice that same sex couples should have a legal equivilent.
  
  I am likewise against discrimination in almost all occupational situations. People should be employed, paid and promoted on merit.
  
  What I dont approve of is the insistence by some that 'all relationships are equal'. A stable marriage between a man and woman for instance is without doubt the best environment to bring up children and needs recognition of that.
  
  Neither do I believe that schools should be free to 'promote' homosexuality as an equal, merely alternative, lifestyle and to that degree I was in favour of S28. That said clearly help needs to be available to confused teenagers and if S28 prevented that (and I am not convinced it did) then it was too heavy handed.
  
  I also remember a time when I had a trip to London with some colleagues for a business meeting. One the way to the hotel we got caught up in a 'Gay Pride' march and we felt most uncomfortable. I was appalled at the lewd and crude behaviour and was only glad my children were not with me. As far as I am concerned those people were the unacceptable face of homosexuality.
  
  Some people are quick to lambast those of us who do not subscribe to the full homosexual agenda as 'homophobic'. I would argue that this is merely an attempt to bully people in staying quiet on those matters of concern to them. The test of homophobia is one of reasonableness, is someone against the whole agenda unthinkingly, if so then such accusations may be justified. But those who see sense in some aspects of the agenda but not others cannot possible be accused of that.

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