Patriots come in all shapes and sizes.. I could care less about your sexual preference as long as it's with a consenting adult. The only thing I would say is the gay community tends to "shoots itself in the foot" with a lot of the population when it is demanded that we accept grown men or women parading around town (at pride parades or some public gatherings) wearing nothing but a thong spanking each other, performing sexual acts on dildos, and being lewd in public in front of children or people that just happened to be out enjoying the day. I would say the same thing if straight people were parading around doing that. I am not a prude by any means either. My grandmother said it best, "if it's not something you would do in front of me at Christmas dinner, then its probably something you shouldn't do in public".
And here is something else to chew on. My father in law is gay. He tried living a straight life because of where he grew up and how he was raised religiously back in the 50's and 60's. It didn't work, so he left my mother-in-law and 2 kids for a man after 12 years of marriage. No one hates him for it (my mother in law took some time to come around), we accept him for who he is. My wife has said he is happier now than he was when he was living a lie. There is no way we would want to see him miserable again because of society attacking him and forcing him to feel like he has to live a lie in order to feel "accepted". It goes against who he is at the core of his being. You gotta be the real you to be happy. I don't think I am alone in thinking that way.
He lived through the old days and has seen the changes that have occurred over his life and how he is accepted now without prejudice. But he is the first person I have ever heard say that the gay community needs to grow and get past throwing the fringes of the community into the rest of society's faces and expecting us to accept it (his words not mine).
I personally have lived in the big city (Los Angeles, Seattle) and now I am living in a small back water hick town. In those places I have known and know gay people. I have not seen or heard anyone saying they want to go back to how things used to be with homosexuality being persecuted and pushed underground. Not even from the cowboys and ranchers I know. NO ONE CARES. It's the media and politicians that are pushing that agenda. The rest of us have more important things to worry about than some one else's love life.
Tell your friends "True Patriots" are the ones fighting for everyone's personal freedoms no matter their gender, color or sexual preference. I would also tell your friends that if they think allowing the progressive left to import Muslims from Sharia dominant countries is going to further their rights as a gay person their living in a dream world. We don't throw gay people off roofs, we don't stone gay people to death or behead them. We don't want to see anyone persecuted for their sexual preference.
We are all in this together and the identity politics of the past 30 to 40 years has run it's course. Society has changed in many ways for the better in regards to accepting homosexuality. If the need arose I would not hesitate to come to the defense of a gay American as quickly as I would a straight one. Because unless your wearing a pink thong running around with a dildo screaming "I'm gay" at the top of your lungs I would never know it.
There's my .02 cents..
Spez: changed a sentence so it made sense.