Most people know someone who they love, care for, admire or respect, who happens to be Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual. The very idea of voting to discriminate against this person is abhorrent to them. Perhaps a person you love, care for, admire or respect just doesn t trust you enough to tell you, yet. Some people, if asked, would say that if they found out that a friend of theirs were Lesbian, they would end that friendship, that if a child of theirs were Gay they would throw him out of the house. However, except for fundamentalist Christians, this seldom happens.
Most people change their attitudes rather than reject a loved one.
AIDS has proven this. Then too, the number of persons with a bisexual orientation is much greater than the number of persons whose orientations are predominately or exclusively homosexual. That may be why so many men seem to think that being Gay is a matter of choice. Or why some think that homosexuality can be cured. Men with slight to moderate homosexual feelings, because of their religious beliefs or cognizant of the opprobrium of society, are able to put those desire aside.