I hear you, Don. Well spoken! Sometimes it's really hard to 'step away' from things that are such emotional triggers. I get a similar reaction. And I've come close to punching people who've made racist and bigoted comments.

What I've found, though, is how many of those same people surprise me by being fully present and ready to do anything for somebody in distress.   The human mind is so complex!

My belief is that attitudes about homosexuality are a microcosm for other destructive attitudes.   There is nothing more harmless than a person's sexual orientation.   So long as you have consenting adults who are capable of giving consent, then anything critical of their behaviour is, to my way of thinking, bizarre.

But I certainly have my own prejudices.

I have to admit that it's really only in the past 10 years or so that I've been able to truly see people who vote "Conservative" (in Canada) as being fully human. And I've even thought the same about wealthy people.   And sometimes it's still a struggle---because I see what our Prime Minister is doing to the country, and I so much abhor the attitudes.

Knowing where those attitudes come from help me to make a closer connection.......and probably help me to get through to some of them.

And it goes two ways......occasionally I find that some belief I held sacrosanct is a lot more complex than I originally thought.