Dear
Leo123
Where the bullying is coming from is a backlash
from gays and transgendered being historically bullied and excluded.
Two wrongs don't make it right,
but this explains this paradigm I agree is not healthy and has to change.
I see a bigger process going on which I call spiritual though you may say it's sociological.
By the human learning curve, if we don't forgive and resolve past problems,
we tend to repeat them by projecting them onto future situations and relations.
So all the bullying and rejection of gays by Christians,
which causes liberals and especially LGBT to fear and blame Christians for abuse,
has now come back and swung the other way.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, which some might call "karmic justice"
Those who did the bullying (the Christians)
now feel targeted with namecalling and even penalized legally.
And sadly, the very ones who the Christians bullied
are now being blamed as the bullies pushing THEIR beliefs through govt.
Ironically, this unfair tyranny of believing one's side to be TRUTH
and pushing it through govt without recognizing free choice of beliefs,
is EXACTLY what the liberals had blamed Christian rightwing for doing!
Leo123 there is an old saying
do not criticize your neighbor
until you walk a mile in his moccasins
Well with the shoes being on the other feet,
now the left can know how the right feels,
and the right can know how the left feels!
You can feel angry and abused this is happening.
Or you can see that history is repeating itself,
where the roles are reversed, so that both neighbors
understand how the other feels when blamed and abused the same way!
Once we understand we don't want that done to us,
maybe we will learn don't do it to anyone else!
In this way, we take turns being equally right on some points and wrong on others.
It comes out even if you add up each person's plus and minus points.
So in this sense, by taking our strengths and weaknesses into account,
we are equal when you average things out. Those with greater strengths
also have greater weaknesses to balance out. I find this applies to all people,
whether I agree or disagree, like or can't stand them, whether liberal or
conservative, Christian or atheist, homosexual or heterosexual. Again the
factor I find that makes the biggest difference in whether we can resolve
conflicts or not is how much we are able to forgive, and in what areas or what degree.
And that is independent of someone's social or political identity, religious or sexual.
What areas or people/groups can we forgive, and which ones we can't.
How we deal with those differences is what makes us better people.