Theism is literally childish

[The Grand Nudger]

When LBGTQ activists tacitly embrace post-modern ideas to support their positions it gives the more moderate religious folks common cause with the more extreme factions. On AF you don't get to see my arguments with the fringe right. I object just as strongly with biblical literalism on the issues. Someone in the middle, like me, who is willing to make ADA like accommodations to those with gender dysphoria, gets it from both sides. The fundies want it to be all about willful perversion and the activists want to normalize a mental illness.

You see...that's where you get it wrong.  "Activists"  read: people with basic functioning empathy...want to normalize the -solutions- to gender dysphoria.  Which is comfortable transgenderism, and yes..even surgery.

My beef isn't with transgenderism or homosexuality as-such;

Yes it is, stop.  There's no reason to couch yourself with me.

but as the underlying postmodern and/or anti-realist assumptions that inform the activist stance.

Not that you could accurately communicate any of it...so...again, nope..it;s the above..and you should be as comfortable in your skin on that count as anyone else. You see..I don;t insist that you stop being who you are or feeling the way you feel anymore than I insist as much for transgenders. I insist...in both of your cases, that you somehow find a way to know yourself, acknowledge yourself, and be comfortably transparent for and as what you both are.

My own views do not come directly from a wooden reading of scripture; but rather, a philosophical commitment to the notion that it means something to be human and that there are universal virtues associated with human nature.

Jesus christ on a pogo stick....... I don't think that your views come from a wooden reading of scripture anyway...sure, a wooden reading would feed those views...but you came to them long before you held a single "philosophical" opinion on -anything-.

I appreciate that you somehow find yourself beset upon all sides, but that doesn't actually indicate that your position on these issues is any more correct or measured. It just means that you've managed to piss everyone off. I'm not having any trouble seeing why.