Responding to Aug. 4's letters denouncing homosexuality, this letter offers factual information to correct misunderstandings. First, 2002 research by institutions such as Emory University, Florida Atlantic University, and the Field Museum of Chicago holds that more than 450 different animal species engage in homosexual activity, which conflicts with homosexuality being a "perversion of nature."

Additionally, that society holds approximately 10 percent of people to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual (6 percent actually identify as gay or lesbian and 19 percent bisexual) contests that homosexuality is a "perversion of man."

Second, homosexual behavior is commonly practiced among heterosexuals: sodomy is legally defined as the mouth or anus of one person and the sex organs of another. A National Library of Medicine article declares that "considerably more heterosexuals" engage in anal sex than do homosexual and bisexual men. To consider such behavior "disgusting" for only homosexual couples thus discredits society's self-proclamation as "intellectual, ethical and moral."

Third, sexual promiscuity, heterosexual and homosexual alike, rather than homosexual behavior, causes "disease spreading." The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease states that, as of 2002, more than 80 percent of adult HIV infections worldwide resulted from heterosexual intercourse.

Fourth, the American Psychiatric Association declared homosexuality no longer a mental illness in 1973, and thus the medical field itself declared that "these people" need NOT be "treated for a psychological disorder of the brain."

Finally, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2002, 50,500,000 females were between the age of 15 and 40. During that time, only 4,000,000 births occurred. Thus most people do not believe sex is only designed "for reproduction between a male and a female," for certainly more than eight percent of potentially sexually active females chose to have sex and not "continue the seed line."