It's amazing to me how some people have an easy time at accepting their same sex attraction issues and others have the hardest time. If only everyone had the same sense of peace as you do.
And if there was no religion to start with, there wouldn't be any labelling, and people wouldn't have to come to terms with ANYTHING!!!!!
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for GOOD people to do EVIL - That takes religion". - Steven Weinberg
However, it is understanding that people who follow religion, namely Christianity and Catholicism, are quick to judge and discriminate against people who aren't of their ilk, when one looks at their god.
"The god of the old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction! Jealous, and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving, control-freak. A vindictive, blood thirsty, ethnic cleanser. A misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sado-masichistic, capriciously, malevolent bully!" - Richard Dawkins.
So really, the brainwashed don't have a leg to stand on if that's who they're learning how to live from.