July 2018. Where I stand on LGBT issues. We live at a time when LGBT issues are never far from the news headlines and social media is permeated with differing, violent, divisive and controversial views, the happy hunting ground of social media trolls. My observation of the debate is that it has been and is simplistic. It is simplistic because it tries to reduce the debate to two extreme points of view without taking into account that the issues involved are much more complex than the sound byte slogans that substitute for helpful informed debate. Instead of extreme positions there is a vital need to recognise that many, perhaps most people stand between the extremes of the positions propagated and are not driven by uncompromising ideologies. Both extremes of the debate are equally simplistic although representing totally differing views. My starting point is that being gay is a genetic issue. So, that means that a gay person isn’t evil or nasty any more or less than ...