[pendy]

It is only in our Christian culture that people are classified as gay or straight. In other cultures, a degree of homosexuality is the norm. In Ancient Greece, people had relationships with others of the same sex and of the opposite sex. The need to classify causes endless problems. I know a number of people who have had relationships with both sexes. I don't classify them as bi - they have a relationship with a person they like and feel sexually drawn to. Whether that person is male or female does not matter.

I will frankly admit that many years ago I met someone who I thought on first acquaintance was male and fancied him like mad - I was somewhat taken aback, to put it mildly, to find out that HE was a SHE! I didn't take the relationship any further, whereas I certainly would have done if SHE had been a HE - so work that one out.

I also have one close friend who was known generally as a randy s*d - very attractive to women, two marriages, lots of lovers - he is now she. We're still friends, R likes the same things that D did, so where's the difference? I can't say I understand it, but friendship covers all sorts of things.

We all of us have different aspects to our make-up - I don't regard homosexuality as a disease, but as a lifestyle choice - I know that many will say that there IS no choice, and whilst that may be true in some cases, it is not necessarily a given. Many people have heterosexual relationships, marry, and raise children, and then decide to practise a gay lifestyle.

Things are rarely that simple ....