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If things continue the way they have been I don't see a line ever being drawn.

Your microagressive trigger words are sexist and hurtful.

Will we be able to marry our cousins..??

I think the line is where your life style messes up other people's lives. Or damages our physical or social environment.

I could don't give a Shiite if you're gay, an absolute moralist, or even which god you believe in- if one at all.
Just don't mess things up for the rest of us.

or warps our children's minds.... nobody ever thinks about the childrens...

Not true, pedophiles think a lot about the children.

Now that's a sticky one:
There are people who believe teaching children science, like evolution, warps them as it steers them away from God.
And there are also those who believe that teaching them religious ideas, burning in hell for example, warps them.

I suppose the only truly "safe" thing to do would be to teach them the high points of all world views, and let them reason it out for themselves. Of cource some people feel the the young should be told what to believe....sounds a bit warping to me....

Actually, I understand to some extent 8's meaning.
Let's look at transgenders as a pretty easy example. Someone born genetically female, who's convinced they are a male, and should actually have an appendage which they do not have (not to mention a whole host of secondary sexual traits)... If this weren't in any way related to sex, we would probably classify this as a mental illness (just look up "Body integrity identity disorder").

To some extent, anything that is not within the immediate range of "normal" becomes classified as a mental illness. Transgenders, homosexuality, bisexuality..... or to strike a little closer to home, obesity, addiction... anger....

Of course, even if you want to look at it as a mental illness, we generally try to accommodate members of our society who DO have mental disorders to ensure they can live as normal a life as possible (ie, making accommodations in schools for children with autism or ADHD...) so even if you chose to identify another person's sexuality as a mental disorder, that doesn't actually absolve you from anything.

Victor, your middle paragraph actually substantiates my post. Thank you.

He said, 'your middle paragraph actually substantiates my post. Thank you.'

First, "normal" is a subjective term, subject to individual (in this case, the OP) or subject to culture. Many gay men and women are perfectly normal regardless of others' opinions of their orientation. And second, grouping together the traits that you do does a better job than I at revealing their dissimilarity, thereby suggesting it is nowhere near as simple as establishing a false continuum and then saying there should be a line somewhere.

Sorry to have been so vague.