I don't know where you get the impression that this thread has been "dominated by U.S. Southerners", and where you get the idea that homesexuality is being "equated with the worst forms of perversion"?

Yeah, a few people were kidding around about having sex with animals, but where does it follow that they are equating that with homosexual sex?

And besides, who decides what is perversion and what isn't?

AFAIC, if both parties consent, there's nothing perverted going on.

All of these "anti-sodomy" laws are just plain stupid anyway, IMO.

Why have them? Because the Bible says that sodomy is wrong?

Whose business is it what consenting adults do among themselves?

I believe that our constitutional right to privacy does and should supercede anything that the Bible may say.

What I do in the privacy of my own home with someone else, as long as we're not infringing upon the rights of others, should be up to me and the other person.

I'm not suggesting that you believe otherwise, TDWFL. I just got a little carried away there when you mentioned sodomy laws.