Dealing with homophobia on Atheist Forums

[Cando]

When did you change your mind?

One year of being a deist and thinking that God and science were compatible until I realized that it was ridiculous to suppose existence of a god without any evidence. So I dropped that.

I also dropped the purity of tolerating intolerance, as all it did was allow those who were profoundly intolerant to abuse my character and good will for their hatred, which would not change or be affected by my inaction.

I learned that action speaks louder than inaction and passivity.

And I also came to grips that I as a limited being wouldn't be able to form a pure, logical definition of behaviors to follow, so I must make do with the incompleteness of my ideology. Therefore, I grew to embrace pragmatism and making things work.

Sounds like you put a lot of thought into all that.