Secondly, there have been studies which show that individuals who are gay tend to have a higher percentage of gay relatives than those who are heterosexual. That would tend to indicate a genetic factor in sexual orientation.
You're reading perhaps a bit too much into that. It could be a learned trait (as could heterosexuality) or a congenital environmental influence.
In general, I do support the idea that gay people have identical civil rights of citizenship as other sexual types, e.g., they have the right to vote, free speech, to bear arms, and the same right that I do
not to be beaten up on street corners.
