LBGTQ people and drawing the line on second class citizenry

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Those who oppose LBGT rights are no better than these people;

Sure they are, until they stoop to lynching and beating people down and overuse of derogative language.

Which not everyone who opposes LGBT rights does, infact... a number of them are rather pacifistic and even rather proper in their stance against say, gay marriage, whilst harboring no ill-will toward gay people at all.

I'm not a fan of branding every person who disagrees with me a violently evil extremist terrorist. Please... that's an identical retardation to comparing someone to Hitler

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I don't consider anyone in particular to be a second class citizen, but ultimately: you're gay even if you're only 1% gay, and you're straight even if you're 99% not... we typically refer to such as marginally bisexual (as in: bisexual only in very rare situations), and don't tend to associate them as such (since in everyday life, there's only a 1% chance of these things happening to them), and so many people who say they are straight are only mostly so...

And at the end of the day, if one spends massively more time experiencing 'straightness' than 'gayness': they are probably going to think of themselves as straight, and people around them will do the same.

The average person doesn't live in spectrums, they live in absolutes and exceptions (Black and White... biracial babies, Gay and Straight... bisexual weirdo, Man and Woman... chick with a dick, Mac and PC... linux). Things that don't comply with the set of absolutes that people tend to take for granted have a strong tendency to be ignored, forgotten, discriminated against, disliked, misrepresented, and/or a source for humor Just how the world works, and it's going to take a lot more than TEDtalks to change absolutist thinking

It's taken feminism a while for women to not generally be considered wholly quiet, passive, submissive, and dependent... really, it takes time and effort that a lot of people don't care to spend