These debates only ever and always get locked down because they're about views that people wear on their sleeve... people cannot extricate themselves and have a civil debate about it because invariably, the reason some of them are debating is to defend prejudices. By prejudices I mean that it is rarely the case that someone arrives at a reasoned position against a minority by first examining all the facts and arriving at some kind of conclusion that the minority deserves unequal treatment.
That is the antithesis of rationality.... and that is why these debates always degenerate into something irrational, because the genesis of hatred toward minorities comes from an irrational place, regardless of what religious, philosophical or other non-empirical biases were retconned into their defense of said biases.
Have the debate by all means, but it'll get locked down soon like every other debate on this subject on any message board ever. It's not really a debate so much as it is a parade of "homosexuality is wrong because god".
