is the cruelest thing parents can do to them acceptance and tolerance are the key words here every parent lives vicariously through their children its a miserable life of constant shame prejudice and inequality the question is why would anyone want to live an unnatural life full of societal conflict facing so many difficulties when gays are so happy and readily accepted within their kindwhy doesnt a secular country like india accept gays the way it accepts other socioreligious minorities all minorities have the right to exist human relationships whether sexual or not are about finding happiness choosing it and being responsible for it making homosexuality legal would make a lot of people more open honest and happier after all what could be more natural than being yourself but just as in a secular society like india the majority hindus can accept and cohabit with the minority muslims because their own religion and its practices are not threatened heterosexuals should understand that acceptance of gays in no way encroaches upon their own sexualityby accepting gays are we encouraging pedophiles and does an assault by a gay on a heterosexual amount to rape pedophilia is not connected to the gay movement pedophiles are monsters who prey on children of either sex and should be treated as criminals yes pedophiles could also be gays but all gays are not pedophiles and any forcible sex with a minor or major is rape irrespective of whether it is carried out by a gay or a heterosexualacceptance and tolerance is it a question of human rights to each his or her own sexual preference but acceptance and tolerance are two different things tolerance means we acknowledge there is something sexually different as opposed to wrong in a gay but we still tolerate himher acceptance means we accept a gay as our equal in all respects and there is no sense of hetero superiority over gay inferiority because one is the majority community and the other the minority in india minorities including gays are always looked upon with suspicion because they are different we have to get over this prejudice medical proof suggests that genes influence sexual preference so then how can a homosexual relation be anything but the order of nature who decides it is notwhat will the world be without gays much the poorer what would the world be without the music of celebrated gays like freddie mercury david bowie george michael elton john boy george or without the onscreen performances of bisexuals like angelina jolie and lindsay lohan and sir laurence olivier and james dean earlier the literature of oscar wilde the writing of gore vidal the art of leonardo da vinci all recognized gays without the tennis of lesbians like martina navratilova and billie jean king where would history be without the influence of gays like julius caesar and alexander the great not to mention all the supremely gifted indians whose names we will not mention here simply because homosexuality