Your analogy is a good one. We can respect people's religious beliefs and understand that challenging them isn't appropriate in a work environment. But this is

Your analogy is a good one. We can respect people's religious beliefs and understand that challenging them isn't appropriate in a work environment. But this isn't about a work environment. There are many issues where LGBTQ identities and desires overlap with concerns society has about them. Religion is the same way. American society has chosen to give religions more leeway than most societies do. We are currently choosing that for LGBTQ rights, but it's often predicated on the idea that sexuality and gender identity are innate and immutable. Science doesn't actually back this up, and so the pendulum for us as a society to decide where the boundary between personal rights and societal wants / needs lie is up for debate, except we tend to avoid the topic. That's what I meant.