Ok so I'll have one final say here and it's all from a religious perspective.
I am a practicing Catholic, and as such my religion is a big part of who I am today, and also conducts how I live my life on a day to day basis, and what I do in my life. I am by no means perfect, and like many people, I am absolutely sick to death of all the "priests" and other members within Christianity who commit crimes such as rape, pedophilia etc... these people are disgusting and are not true Christian people. They deserve the same fate as those who commit these crimes who are not within Christianity.
I know we have some gay people here, and I'm going to state this outright... I DO NOT AND NEVER WILL HATE YOU. I like, in fact you could say I love you, because YOU are a child of God, YOU are a gift to someone, and YOU are, just like everyone else, flesh and blood. We all enter the world innocent. Homosexuality is NOT a choice, and you cannot control who you are and who you are attracted to, and it's very important for you to know that Catholic church knows this, the Catholic church does NOT judge you on this, and the Catholic church WELCOMES YOU into their walls and welcomes you to their service.
The issue that we have is not that there are gay people, however it is itself, the act of homosexuality which we believe is a sin. There are gay people within the Catholic church who put their faith ahead of their sexuality and do not engage in homosexual activity as they believe it's a sin, do not get married, and die virgins. They do this for their faith. It may be sad, but it's also humble and honorable.
What I was hoping that people of my faith could salvage from this all, was very simple - religious freedom. And now we have lost that too. All we have now is our faith, but our faith is big. It's the biggest part of our lives, and that will not be broken. We will continue to pray for those who we believe are sinning, we continue to love those who we believe are sinning, and this includes ourselves, because we all are sinners, except our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We ask that people out there, whether you are for, against, or neutral, simply respect us and our beliefs, and we will respect you as humans and children, gifts, from God.
Peace.