You say it is in the Bible? Give me a verse, please.

Are you being judgmental?

Matthew 7:1 Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Romans 14:9-13 For this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living. But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Sounds like you're judging your brothers and sisters to me...

Or if you wanted to go strictly by the Bible...Read this.

6 " 'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7 " 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

8 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.

9 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

10 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.

11 " 'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

12 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.

13 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

14 " 'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

15 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.

16 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.

17 " 'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

18 " 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

19 " 'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

20 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her

This is Leviticus Chapter 18, a majority of it. Read it carefully. Do you see a place that says, "Do not have sexual relations with your daughter'? Yeah didn't think so. MEN wrote the Bible. God did not come down to Earth and pen it Himself. I am a very faithful Christian, and let me tell you. Men ALWAYS want what they want. They wrote those things in there because they wanted to sound right and just. They just happened to leave out the one that they enjoyed, incest between the father and daughter. Know why? Because back then, the daughter was considered property of the father. Since that's in the Bible, you want to go by this?

Or perhaps since polygamy is in the Bible, that makes it okay too, yes? You can't pick and choose what you believe the Bible says, you have to go by it all. Am I right?

What's so wrong about something that occurs in nature, even? Homosexual acts have been seen in dolphins, bonobos, and even penguins. But if a man loves a man or a woman loves a woman, it's wrong? Because some homophobe wrote down 3000 years ago that God said so, even though that's probably a lie.

Being gay or a lesbian is very wrong. Heres the reason why the bible says it is.

If you're going to take your marching orders from some depraved book of savagery written by primitive men of the desert thousands of years ago, then I suppose you're prepared to someday murder your children when they're disobedient. Not doing so is very wrong. Here's the reason why, the Bible says it is.

if making fun of someone for being different is a hate crime, then its a victimless crime.

Except for those who suffer it. They count as victims.

There is no reason why words or even being a social outcast should cause someone to harm themselves.

The more the words are repeated, the more convinced the victim becomes that they are true. When a victim believes that they are an abomination and of no use to the world, they seek to remove themselves.

I used to have a speech impediment, and be terribly shy, institutions tried to help me and all they did was make things worse.

Then you should know better.

Its best to realize that when someone makes fun of you, its because of THEM, not you.

Correct, but to expect everybody to realise this is perverse. In addition, such moral high ground is near useless when you have no friends, and nobody who cares for you or even deigns to speak to you other than to insult you.

The people that killed themselves accepted someone else's view of them

You're over-simplifying it. Almost nobody can withstand sustained social exclusion and harassment. It's all well and good being who you are, but without friends, the colour starts to fade from life. You wake up in the morning and you can't think of a reason to get out of bed. You know that you will march straight into the face of abuse, a vicious, focused attack upon your identity.

they willingly accepted an identity they did not like and killed themselves because they lacked the mental capacity to cope with that identity

You are placing the blame with the victim, which in this case cannot be justified by calling them weak.

and they had a strong desire to be something they couldn't.

It is the desire to be accepted above all else.

The best way to stop gay bullying, is to teach gay youth some independence of mind, to get rid of the need to be accepted by most people, and most importantly: to accept who they are and the people who makes fun of them for what they are: nothing of importance unless they allow them to be.

What's the point? It's a "victimless crime".

they have the values of the herd and are willing to play the martyr to it.

I prevail upon your own sense of self-worth (which you would have us believe is great indeed) in saying that not all people are blessed with so penetrating an insight into the minds of the victims and the instigators. You are erecting a barrier of insensitivity to hide your own need for acceptance. I should know, I did it. Perhaps when you grow up you'll realise that this is no way to carry on.

It should be the other way, the herd should feed the Shepard, and if they give you trouble: beat it with a stick

I have found that those with no talent for control or leadership often classify themselves as leaders. It is a pathetic attempt to justify their ostracism. You are not a shepherd, you are the black sheep.