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Being Gay: A Life in the Balance In the ancient times of the Greeks homosexuality was celebrated as the highest form of love in the known world but today people’s opinions on homosexuality are almost completely opposite. In society today if a person is gay they are usually put into a stereotype of being neurotic, child molesting predators. The truth is that most gay stereotypes are just a way for people to create buffers from the things that they fear. Society itself was built on a foundation of superficial values that would eventually lead to the belief that homosexuality was a mental disorder or a disease. To prevent this alleged disease from spreading, people went as far as committing adolescents who portrayed homosexual behavior to sanitariums. Society needs to learn that homosexuality is not a disease it is a genetic trait and no one has the right to try to change another persons sexual orientation just because they don’t like it In the world today there are many differing opinions on homosexuality, some people choose to believe that it is a deviant lifestyle that goes against god while others prefer to believe that it is just another form of expression. The Catholic Church is one of the largest anti-gay groups in