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That's why I reference politics and religion. Choose your own analogy.

• brudgers 14y ago
  Your argument depends upon conflating politics with sexuality. The ease with which each can be conflated with religion sends us down the slippery slope. We are often inclined to contain our political views for the sake of civility because they are opinions, and even those of widely differing views generally recognize that. Are disagreements are about the relevance of facts or the validity of their measuring. Generally the arguments are not about what exists in the shared world. While the distance between religion and politics may be small historically, outside the political realm, the distance between disagreement about politics and about religion can be huge. Religion asserts as fact a description of each person's position in the world. Thus, religious claims are about me personally, and unlike political claims, the speaker does not acknowledge that their view about me personally is opinion. As political speech, I may treat it the expression of civic opinion. When it characterizes me personally, it is another matter just like characterizations of my sexuality.