I recall one time talking with a guy in the back of a church after the service was over (back when I attended church).  The sermon had been about acceptance and had specifically touched on gay acceptance.<p>The man had only come to the church twice, and we were talking, and he was quoting the bible in support of his view that homosexuality is a sin.  I listened and was engaging him in conversation.  Multiple people came up to me and tried to &quot;help me escape&quot; the conversation because they had no interest in engaging with someone who didn&#x27;t agree with them.<p>I read this article and I couldn&#x27;t help but see lines like this, &quot;To be sure, there are hateful, racist, people not worthy of the small amount of electricity it takes just one of your synapses to fire.&quot;  Really?  It just seems like the same old play at being accepting and open minded, but not really.  I would also say that this IS a political correctness issue.  This isn&#x27;t really a problem for the political right because they don&#x27;t mind being offended, and they don&#x27;t feel the need to pretend to be open minded (at least in the US).<p>This seems very much in the vain of when Jon Stewart had the &quot;Rally to Restore Sanity.&quot;  It claimed to be about being open minded, but it was really just about presenting the notion that &quot;we&quot; (see people on the political left) value being open minded.