However, try to outlaw discrimination, racism, intolerance, poverty, or injustice and everyone is not so quick to jump on board. We're all for change, as long as it's others who do the changing. Scientific research consistently indicates that sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, but rather simply is. Attempts of the religious right to deny those findings through isolated and slanted interpretations of scripture is not a new tack. Historically, zealots have selected biblical passages, which would appear to support their biases and to justify their need to deny other minorities the rights, which they felt were reserved exclusively for themselves.
Freedom of speech is a right often misused, but a right nonetheless.
It is also a price we pay for living in a democracy. Those who use that right for inflammatory purpose, should not however, be surprised when people react in kind. I still cannot figure out how ensuring the rights of one group of citizens, long denied, should somehow be perceived as a slight to other, unaffected groups. It may be that I must, out of respect for the Constitution, tolerate both the active and passive aggressive tactics of these zealots, but I most certainly do not have to do business with those who are plastering their office and store fronts with their hostile mumbo jumbo. I encourage others to do the same.