"homosexuality is wrong"

"homosexuality will degrade the morality of society"

Maybe I'm really, really, thick, but how is this not hateful?

The obvious exercise would be to replace homosexuality with being black or Jewish. I'm not saying this to score cheap points, but to illustrate how I personally read this.

I'm very sorry, and I respect the fact that we're talking about people who are very dear to you, but cannot read those phrases as anything other than expressions of hatred.