And that's going to happen by using the government to persecute the moral for refusing to facilitate immorality? I don't think so.
You are able to adequately generalize the problem here but then elsewhere ensure that those root causes can never be remedied because you simultaneously agitate for government to disempower and persecute the moral on behalf of the immoral.
Morality IS concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character and that IS the root issue.
At some point, to move forward, you're going to have to come to grips with your own illogical contradiction.
What are you rambling on about? I'm talking about alleviating poverty, better educating people, funding crop farmers, drilling wells, investing in business, construction, welfare systems, better economies, more stable governments, better medical care, rooting out police corruption. This has got absolutely nothing to do with gay rights in the UK and America.
You seem to think that because I support the equal rights of gay people that I somehow condone every other kind of behaviour you consider immoral; murder, rape, paedophilia, genocide, oppression and whatever else. Well you're wrong, AoK, continually, blatantly and bloody well infuriatingly.
The root cause of violence in Africa is the willingness to be violent, if we look at it from an individualist standpoint as you currently are, but there are issues with economy, education, policing, government and culture that are interdependently existent with, and influential on, the individual outlook itself. People are conditioned, AoK, and nothing exists in society totally cut off from something else.
Sure, a lot of people in these nations behave immorally, but it's not solely because they behave immorally.
Let's get something blatantly clear, I consider many, many things immoral; theft, arson, murder, paedophilia, rape, corporate malfeasance, genocide, the killing of an innocent under any circumstances, corporal punishment, child abuse, chemical warfare, carpet bombing, using nukes, detaining people for months on something as flimsy as 'suspicion', Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, the barbaric practices of psychiatrists towards mental patients in days gone by, serial killing, cheating on your wife or husband, hitting children, discriminating against people because of their creed, colour, sexual orientation or gender, wife beating, assault, economic bullying, false advertising, using lead paint, covering up the dangers of tobacco, indecent exposure in front of children and in undesignated areas, killing species into extinction, extreme deforestation, oceanic pollution, and the list goes on. And I don't have the time to sit and explain to you why I believe all those practices to be wrong, but one thing you do not see in that list is homosexuality.
I find plenty of things immoral, definitely, but homosexuality is not one of them. Now, can you grasp that, AgeOfKnowledge? Can you actually understand that I find many, many things immoral in common with you, but homosexuality is not one of them? Can you genuinely now realize, that my finding homosexuality not immoral, does not mean that I find every other horrid human practice absolutely acceptable. It's a false representation of me to say otherwise, it's dishonest, it's an affront to fair argument, it is not academic; frankly, it's plain ignorant.
To use it in such a way as you do ''you force moral people to facilitate immorality'', then compare homosexuality to paedophilia, is a gross misrepresentation and a faulty generalization. By biblical basis sins can be grouped together as equal in their immoral nature, but using 'sin' as synonymous to 'immoral' is just twisting semantics to make your own interpretations or what's 'moral' and 'not moral' not opposable.