Human resources deal with humans. Humans are not always so keen to leave their feelings at home, despite how capable you are of such things. Considering that th

Human resources deal with humans. Humans are not always so keen to leave their feelings at home, despite how capable you are of such things. Considering that there are a lot of opinionated people that exhibit displays of disgust and actions motivated by said disgust toward the LGBT community, then, in order to maintain a safe work place, human resources needs to address the issues of treating your LGBT coworkers with respect, much in the same way as they've had to do with minorities and female coworkers entering the work place back in the day (which sadly they still must address, because small minded bigots persist). You may be perfectly fine, but one of your more conservative coworkers might be a talented bigot hiding their bigotry in the closet until such time that it might present itself, and human resources has to get ahead of that before it becomes an issue. This isn't bringing politics into the work place. This is making sure hostile politics (i.e. bigotry) doesn't affect the workplace.