I have gay friends who expressed the same kind of emotional response at the thought of heterosexual intercourse as you feel about homosexual intercourse. I agree with Retired Engineer. You don’t have to embrace their private preferences in order to respect another human.
The polio virus itself never left. It’s still found in waste water everywhere, including here in the US. People who are vaccinated don’t develop paralytic disease but can still harbor it in their gut. Unvaccinated people choose the risk of paralysis without the basic knowledge of how the virus or the vaccine works. You are so right. Viruses do not “burn out”. People who were vaccinated as children have grown up ignorant of the science and developed complacency BECAUSE their vaccines worked.
I have a friend in retail. She tells me the majority of the shoplifting in her store is done by teenage girls out for a thrill. None of them wear hoodies.
I have gay friends who expressed the same kind of emotional response at the thought of heterosexual intercourse as you feel about homosexual intercourse. I agree with Retired Engineer. You don’t have to embrace their private preferences in order to respect another human.