Exactly.
‘This is dubious on the face of it, because members of a “free” society, i.e. all of us, will respect or not respect, as we judge a thing respectable or not. You can’t really enforce respect. Only toleration. As MLKing said, “The law can’t make you love me, but it can prevent you from lynching me.” Right: and that’s as far as it goes.’
In reference to that MLK quote, I noticed a long time ago that the homosexualists are hell-bent on “making everyone ‘love’ them” via persecution by the state if you do not. Otherwise, they would’ve been content with the tolerance they’ve experienced in the west for years. If homosexuality were really such a “great” thing, they wouldn’t need the approval of any other human. But their consciences are convicting them just as Herod Antipas and Herodias were convicted by the preaching of John the Baptist(Mark 6:14-29).
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%206:14-29&version=NKJV
Yes. But they’re not all that approval-demanding, irritating and punitive. Really, I think the fairly low-key ones outnumber the obnoxious ones, just like the general swath of people at, say, Free Republic.