Concerning difference, I think you misunderstood my point. Finally, concerning disease, you're quite right that if a man and woman engage in sexual practices for which their bodies are not designed, they will suffer the same ill effects that homosexuals suffer for engaging in them. Please, my dear, consider the implications. I've often conversed or corresponded with people like Lawrence, who become enraged at the very thought that someone might question their behavior. On the other hand, I've had conversations with people who struggle against their desires, people who celebrate them, people who debate about them and people who, by the grace of God, have escaped from them.
Every conversation is different.
It isn't that the other kinds of conversation aren't also worth telling about, but I try to help where help is most needed, and I know from my mail that college Christians are stunned and baffled when hit by defensive sloganeering, accusations of hatred, tendentious redefinition of terms, willful misunderstanding and rapid-fire changes of topic like Lawrence's. Among other things, I wanted to show the difference between how to deal with a bona fide intellectual objection and how to deal with a smokescreen. I also wanted to show that love doesn't mean softening the truth. Many times more mail has arrived about this dialogue than about most. A few letters have come from people who wanted to applaud or vituperate me.