Why do Homosexuals get so upset if someone doesn't agree with there lifestyle? (We all have freedom of choice, even the ones who disagree)
by 
Charmaine Jay
ANSWERS: 4
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I think it has something to do with people vocalising their disagreement to the point of violence in some cases. Free speech - no worries, pushing your view on others by victimising, discrimination and violence is a whole different story. When sometimes a gay person's family cannot look past a persons sexuality to the human being above that, it is scary and difficult at times for those among us who are gay.
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Because those who disagree with their lifestyle hurt them in many ways, far beyond anything you likely have ever experienced and possibly beyond your capacity to believe. Can you get a job? If so, would you be fired the instant your bosses find out about what you do in your bedroom? Can you walk down the street without being insulted... or assaulted? When was the last time you were beaten just for being yourself? Persecution can make people defensive. Violent persecution can make people REALLY defensive. You may have to deal with people insulting your faith, but I doubt you have to actually fear for your livelihood... or your life.
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Besides the physical and legal persecution specifically experienced by the gay community, noone likes for someone to criticize their "lifestyle" from the outside. I don't suppose you would like it very much if I publicly disapproved of your, Charmaine Jay's, specific spending habits, and declare that they make you a bad person and that you should be forced to change. How can you so boldly live in that house, or drive that car, and live with yourself, you bad person you. Or if I denounced your parenting abilities in a public forum, and specifically suggested that your children should be taken away because of it. But of course, I don't know you. I don't know anything about you or your "lifestyle". And I certainly don't think I can judge anyone else's life no matter how much "evidence" I think I have of what kind of person they are. Only the law, or if you believe in that sort of thing a higher judge, can do that. For someone to be so arrogant as to "disagree" with the fundamental existence of their fellow human beings IS upsetting for many people to witness.
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First, you can't lump all homosexuals together as one class who share thought collectively. That's not fair. Second, I think many gay people don't get particularly upset with those who don't agree on lifestyle any more than gay people are "always demanding special rights." Some who criticize gays do so with less than adequate facts in hand, and that can be frustrating. Citing the Bible, stating the lifestyle is a choice, stating that they will turn their children gay, etc., injects misinformed bias into an argument that can't be won. When you say you don't like motorcycles or fishing, you criticize one apsect of someone's life. When you state being gay is wrong, you criticize who an individual is, you put down an aspect they cannot change and in doing so, you make them a lesser person than a straight individual. Wouldn't that upset you?
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