Brainwashing by alienation?

I continue to hear many things regarding the increased acceptance of homosexuality, especially the hatred thrown at those who hold fast to traditional marriage.

What I find interesting is that most homosexuality supporters (abbreviated to HS for this post) label the traditional supporters (TS, for this post) as 'intolerant' and 'bigots.' But, if we are to understand 'intolerance' as a feeling or act of hatred towards those who disagree to our own view, then surely - by the very act of calling a TS a 'bigot' - the HS group are displaying strong signs of intolerance and bigotry?

How is it 'tolerant' to say, "You don't agree with me, so you're a bigot"? Or, in its most ironic form, "I can't tolerate your intolerance!" Surely 'tolerance' would be to say, "We accept people, regardless of their view"?

It seems to me that this whole issue is a very clever piece of social peer pressure - brainwashing, if you will. People don't like being called names, especially to be labelled as something like a 'bigot.' For a TS, the options are to either change their thinking to become a HS, or to be irrationally and intolerantly labelled and insulted.

The HS agenda is moved forward, not with logical reasoning or scientific evidence, but with schoolyard bully tactics. The TS group are made to feel alienated by their own people unless they change their view. The feeling of alienation is unpleasant, and it doesn't require much conversation to find that many people (in UK, at least) do not have enough foundation to their beliefs, that many will move from a TS to a HS (still without solid conviction).

To top it off, 'tolerance' laws are then added to society, jeopardising the jobs of the TS if they should voice their opinion in the wrong environment. How is this equality? How is this tolerant?

It seems - to me at least - the hallmark of a society that does not really know what it wants to be. An act of people-pleasing that only results in confusion, anarchy and alienation.



What I also find ironic is the offence caused by turning the name-calling around: the next time a HS calls a TS a bigot, tell them that such a statement is a sign of intolerant bigotry and see what happens!