You're absolutely right akenaton. Some things just aren't important enough to tub-thump about. Others are vitally important and need our attention.
There's a thread on here at the moment about grief, and it's clear that some of our Mudcat members are suffering loss and great sadness. It's lovely to read the support and sympathy offered to them.

My husband was brought up to regard gay people as spawn of the Devil. They hide their sexuality in W Africa because they'd literally be severely beaten with heavy sticks, kicked and spat on in the street. No-one there tolerates gays. But I've been working on him for many years about this. He can see that here, gays are part of our society, and are individuals in their own right (and why ever not?). There are gay musicians, gay businessmen/women, gay doctors and so on. He's met a few, and they have all been very kind to him. A holiday barn cleaner gave him a whole pile of precious clean sheets when he was low on stock; a cosmetics adviser in a store found lots of free samples for him to take home for his sisters and mum just before he went back for a visit. He's begun to see through his awful prejudice and to look at the person, not the sexuality. I had tears in my eyes when he actually hugged the cosmetics chap in gratitude. Job done!