[@Penny]

In address prior to this current change of conversation.

I would not put the various choices of sexuality under the same scrutiny and social battle as segregation or its clearly related struggles of interracial marriage. That comparison is so far off in scope that to equate the two is to demean a huge number of people who had legitimate grievances and experienced [i]actual[/i] suffering and legally backed discrimination, despite being no different than skin tone. Members who suffer from sexual dysphoria are not treated as some rate of second class citizens because of their condition or personal orientations; they receive the exact same treatment as anyone else across the board. It goes without saying that they can engage in their activities covertly while race, the very comparison this was made against, simply cannot.

The issue with acceptability is not that they are different, but that a great number of them among their relatively small percentage of the actual population are demanding concessions, or in other words, that everyone else be willing to play by their rules... rather than them doing so themselves.

The answer to that is [i]no[/i]. We all as persons give and take to play by societal rules if we wish to engage with the general population that surrounds us; we have the option not to and I myself am a prime example of that so I actively avoid other people. It is not the duty of the majority of people to answer to the minority when that group is already receiving fair treatment as human beings. I do not owe someone the "courtesy" of having to apologize for "mislabeling" their sexuality or using the wrong pronoun out of the great number that now exist. If one's personal code or condition is so flimsy that it legitimately hurts them beyond their adult ability to press on through conversational or interactive slights, then perhaps it is [i]them[/i] who is wrong.

No less, it shows exceedingly poorly that so many of these people are characterized and personified by some of the least respectable human beings on this planet who also happen to be the most vocal. Not because of their sexuality, but because they use it as a weapon, a source of shielding through victimhood, and a tool to make themselves be "unique" or "different" from everyone else for the sake of attention and followers. I will restate that I care nothing, and I do mean [i]nothing[/i], about others' sexuality, but I cease being so tranquil when one attempts to impose their expectations on me and then label [i]me[/i] a villain because I refuse to participate in childish games.

I should also note that homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, and so forth ad infinitum, are [i]not[/i] the mainstream and never have been, neither are they likely to ever be. They account for roughly 4% of the general population, which is statistically not even close to representing a majority or anything that resembles one. The other 96% or so should not be obligated to care or forced to comply to additional standards, no less ones that have an entire lexicon of mingled words and formal procedures that need to be memorized and carried out.

Lastly, you are taking issue with the conservatives for being... conservative? I am wording it that way intentionally because the remark seems to somehow imply they are "wrong" for doing so despite the overt fact they adhere to the traditional belief. Needless to say, that is their right and role to do so, otherwise they would not be conservatives.