After hearing the NPR episode, I got some really nice emails from Conservative f...

After hearing the NPR episode, I got some really nice emails from Conservative folks who said, "We don't hate gay people." I am aware of that. I don't consider the Conservatives I know hateful. But, because they are focused on issues that concern them, I think that they miss the actions of some they support: those who express their anti-marriage stands in the most hurtful ways, those who would allow gay people to be denied service in restaurants and medical care, those who would legalize the right for gay people to be fired for being themselves honestly on the job, those who would allow damaging conversion therapies to destroy the very selves of children struggling to be themselves. The attack rhetoric used to defame and disrespect other humans trying to live their lives. Children will listen and there is an impact on kids trying to find the truth of their lives. Ben Carson, being gay is no more a choice than being heterosexual but that's not the point, really. The point is that in America it is a choice that people should be free to make. Don't support the politics of divisiveness and hated.