In reading the recent proposition 8 editorials and articles, I have a couple of recurring tangential thoughts that just won't go away.

Universally, all major religions: Islam, Christianity, Shinto, Buddhism and adherents of Confucius all have accepted holy writ designating homosexual liaisons as prohibited to their adherents.

Consequently, I would presuppose that a majority of the LGBT activists have spurned such theocratic teachings and any acceptance of such religions stems more from custom than from any particular devotion; finding any religious teaching which objects to their chosen life-style as fundamentally flawed.

In rejecting all of the world’s major deity-based theologies, the remaining theologies are various forms of paganism and Darwinism.

An espoused belief in Darwinism (or the humanist philosophy of rational thought) would generally explain, even in the absence of any empirical evidence, the assertion (ironically, requiring faith in the existence of that which has not been scientifically observed) that sexual orientation is a genetically based physical trait and not merely a matter of personal sexual preference.

However; an intellectual adherent to Darwin’s theory of creation through natural selection is presented with an impossible conundrum: Natural selection presupposes that positive mutations are driven by the imperatives of survival and promulgation of the species. Consequently, there is no reasonable scientific explanation, given millions of years of human evolution, for the persistence of a dominate homosexual gene which inherently reduces or even precludes the perpetuation, through progeny, of those with the affecting gene or trait.

With no other available religious alternatives, I am surprised that most of the LGBT community does not identify themselves as pagans; which has no objection to unconventional lifestyles and does not require the justification of a LGBT sexual orientation.

Maybe they are pagans, and either have not realized it, or have not made known their faith for fear of not being accepted by the vast majority of non-pagans . . . now that would be ironic!