LGBT Community Demands and Their Consequences

For far too long, the LGBT community has been treated with disrespect, violence and abhorrence.  Contrary to Christian principles, the heterosexual world held LGBT members in contempt.  With the recent Supreme Court decision and other lower court decisions, change is taking place across the country.  Yet the LGBT community continues to fight as if there's still rampant discrimination at every turn.

Gays, however, should be trying to assimilate and blend into mainstream America rather than setting itself apart as a separate entity.  This separation only continues to further divide the country rather than unite it.  Part of the problem is that LGBTers say inclusion but, seemingly, mean participation, as in heterosexuals must not only accept LGBTers' lifestyle but embrace it and participate in it, if only passively.  That's just not going to happen.

As an attorney, I firmly believe in equality under the law.  That doesn't mean that I have to engage in activities with people whose beliefs, traditions and pastimes don't interest me.  To take one example, there is no question that Jews are equal to anyone else in the country, but I'm not celebrating Hannukah (heck, I'm not even sure how to spell it correctly, much less celebrate it).  So why must I champion the gay lifestyle?

What's more, the constant snark and glibness from the LGBTers is nauseating.  The culmination of this was at the White House last summer shortly after the SCOTUS ruling gave LGBTers equal rights:

It's funny that after the Civil Rights Act was passed, blacks didn't run through the White House flipping off pictures of past presidents who did nothing to end segregation.  For a community that holds itself to be urbane, sophisticated and classy, this is an abomination.

Then there's the drumbeat of LGBT couples who are taking conservative -- usually religious -- businesses to court for not providing services to them.  They liken this refusal to the refusal of businesses to serve blacks before 1970.  The difference is that these businesses are doing so because of religious beliefs, not racial prejudice.  And even assuming that that's illegal, why is it not illegal for LGBT businesses to refuse business from heterosexual customers?

Such militancy risks putting the LGBT cause back years.  The gains its made in court will never be undone, and that's fine.  But the LGBTers are so desirous of having everyone accept their lifestyle and participate in it that they run the risk that people will be so offended that LGBTers will find themselves isolated and marginalized -- albeit it with equal rights -- from society at large.

We are getting away from being a melting pot and becoming more of a salad.  I like salads...when I eat.  I'm not so keen of them as social constructs.  Sometimes, certain ingredients in a salad overpower other ingredients or, in the worst case, ruin the taste of the entire salad.

This movement, as with the Black Lives Matter movement, needs to learn that less is more.  Equal is equal.  But foisting oneself on other people will not do anything to endear one to other people, no matter how witty, urbane, sophisticated and classy one thinks him- or herself.

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