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Because it is a tool that can be used to divide.

What do you mean by that?

People can be split up into many categories. Politicians take advantage of this by making one group fight the other group and gain power in the process. The bltq+ movement is a political movement because politicians use can use it to make people hate each other.

It wasn't created by politicians, though. It was created by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer people so they could get together and fight for their rights.

"We gave them equality"

Wow.

No, the lgbtq+ community fought for equality, you didn't "give" anything you arrogant asshole.

The court ruling that makes it illegal to fire someone for being gay was last year - 2020. Before that, it depended on which state you lived in.

BUT people kept fighting for rights they didn't have yet, so that changed last year.

People like you who think that the job was done in the 80's? Couldn't be more wrong. And you're still wrong. There's still more equality that's not been given.

Bostock v. Clayton County GA, 2020. Look it up for yourself. You're wrong.

I assume you're not American, is the issue here. The Supreme Court's ruling is not retroactive. It is now federally mandated to interpret the Civil Rights Act this way but only BECAUSE of the court battle last year. Nothing will ever happen to the employers who fired their gay staff prior to the ruling in states where it was legal to do so.

This is basic knowledge in the USA but I appreciate it can be difficult to understand if you're not from here.

So the Civil Rights Act very noticeably and deliberately did not include sexual orientation as a protected class when in was passed under Johnson.

That means that while the CRA was universal in the USA, covering LGBT workers under the CRA was not. States had to pass their own laws requiring that LGBT were covered by the CRA and many states simply didn't. In those states it was legal to discriminate against your gay employees.

The Supreme Court ruling in 2020 changed that and from now on, the LGBT community IS covered by the Civil Rights Act across the USA. But that is a change. That is something SCOTUS did last year. Prior to that, it was a state-by-state or even a county-by-county issue. And as I say, none of the firings prior to 2020 can or will ever be prosecuted because they were done legally at the time.

So you are wrong. It's because people are still fighting that things like that can still be fixed even now.

What if I owned a house of ill repute in Nevada where that's legal. Then, suppose I hired a gal to work on her back (or knees) and she tells me after she's hired that she's a lesbian.

I would think that I'd be able to fire her for being a lesbian at that point.

You just answered the question that you posted in your original meme.

Seen this trick before from lefty trolls. Pose a question, draw out the first respondent into an almost staged fight, then claim victory. No thanks.

What rights would those be? The right to indoctrinate and abuse others’ children?

It is only a political issue due to a push for official governmental acknowledgement and sanctions. Part of that acknowledgment is to pass laws providing protection based on self identified status. The result of the protections will cost businesses, individuals, governmental bodies a great deal of money. This is not acceptable, mostly because there is no agreed upon science supporting those self identified status. At most there are theories.

It’s not. Next question.

It's not politics. Queerphobic people make it a politic because of their 19th century mindset and "religious values"

Exactly!