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hockeybub89 posted...

You're certainly testing the limits of my civility. I can't help you if your response to LGBTQ people and their concerns is "I get you're upset, but you're in a political bubble and not handling this the way an outside observer like me believes is correct. Honestly, you're fundamentally behaving exactly like that other side that thinks you're pedophiles and threats to America." You're essentially saying you care more about harmony and good outcomes for all than the people being hurt.

You aren't allowing LGBTQ people to be emotional. You're saying they need to have their emotional moment, get it all out, and then they need to realize a lack of effort to educate the "other side" is responsible for the confused Republican stance and we need to all work on a compromise. Because you have admitted you don't actually know much about anything going on and need to do more research, but you definitely know there is no way anyone with any kind of platform or power in America is being malicious towards LGBTQ people.

I'm sorry you are interpreting it that way. How you are characterizing what I am saying is not accurate to what I am attempting to express.

I am not saying anybody needs to do anything, I just personally have a perspective about what is most effective, and was sharing that perspective. Nobody has to behave in a way I find most optimal, I make no demands or requirements of people in that regard. Rather I am expressing my opinion of what is most likely to help, not what is required. I am sympathetic towards people having emotional responses, and even if those responses IMO aren't useful towards the relevant goals, I would not deny a person a right to have such a response.

People are allowed their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Me disagreeing with a perspective is not me arguing that such a perspective should not be allowed to exist. I am quite pro free-speech (and freedom in general) and would not take such a position.