When all homosexuals are lumped together as "perverts", regardless of whether they troll bathhouses or live quietly and constructively with a loving, lifetime partner, that's hate.
I evaluate folks on their merits as individuals. I also believe - because I believe Christ tells me so - that the issue of eternal damnation is not a function of sexual orientation, but whether one has respected and honored his fellow man. On that basis, I'll take my chances with the merciful Christ, not the Christ of your imagination who enables your "disgust" with good people.
So, tell me, is the priest who ministers to the sick, feeds the homeless, counsels the heartbroken, and otherwise is a great guy (except for that thing about fondling choirboys) a pervert or not?
Perversion is dependent on perverse behaviour or belief, and not the rest of what a person does or believes.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole loaf.
That doesn't have to be public, in fact it can be very private, but it is no less perversion if it is private, just less obvious.
Saying someone who espouses or engages in perverted behaviour isn't hatred, it is honesty, and something which can be done without any emotion toward the practitioner at all, much less anything which reaches levels of animosity (except in the most perverse distortion of the language) described as "hate".
If some people are determined to engage in such behaviour, they will find a way. However, we would be remiss to not call it what it is so others don't fall into the trap of thinking unnatural behaviour is natural, just because a small group of practitioners of that behaviour have been successful in bullying and badgering and propagandizing some of the population into either saying that behaviour is normal or staying silent. If you believe in a fixed set of principles right and wrong are not determined by a vote, a poll, or consensus, they simply are.
