Sally Ride's death and admission to being gay

According to her obituary--which she co-wrote--Sally Ride acknowledged that she and her partner had been in a homosexual relationship for 27 years.  If people had known she was gay 30 years ago, they would have wrecked her career and her life.  Some people actually believe that if you are gay, you will "make a child" gay or try to force yourself on anyone, including children.  I have known a lot of gays in my time--and most of the time, I never knew they were--and it surely did not and does not change my respect for them as  people, for what they accomplished in their careers and the military, wherever.  The world is full of bullies and the gays, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, obese, mentally ill--anyone who is somewhat different--will always be a target.  So many bash the gays but don't seem to blink an eye at the heterosexuals who have sex outside of marriage, during marriage, and/or with numerous partners.  I know that we have all sinned and being gay—which so many people get their “knickers in a knot” about--is the bottom of my list.  Murderers, mass murderers, child molesters, abusive husbands and abusive wives (or significant others), rapists, and anyone who would be cruel to a person or an animal are the ones that concern me.  I have known gays with more compassion for people and animals than many a person who sits on a pew every Sunday.  To deny anyone access to a church, school, place of business, military--anywhere because of sexual preference--is no different than denying any minority those same rights.  Too many want to send missionaries to a foreign field to save the "heathens"--and spreading the Gospel is a great thing--but if you can't live it at home and in your church, you have failed miserably as a Christian in my book--and not just as a Christian, but as a human being.