If you want to be an accepting person, you have to first decide who it is you are wanting to accept. If you are simply wanting to be as accepting and tolerant a

If you want to be an accepting person, you have to first decide who it is you are wanting to accept. If you are simply wanting to be as accepting and tolerant as you can possibly be, then it would seem that you would want to accept as many people as possible. That would suggest that you would rather accept the >30% of the country that considers homosexuality unacceptable than the <15% that actually is homosexual. In other words, you would prefer the status quo, which is to say, you would choose to be conservative. Almost everyone is happy to tolerate everyone who doesn't try to interfere with them, their preferences, and their beliefs. Racists are generally happy to tolerate black people as long as they sit in the back of the bus, use their own drinking fountains, and remember to say 'sir'. Even racists tolerate those who tolerate them.