It doesn't have to Webby.....
You start off your post with the repair, then go on to justify your personal beliefs as the fix to "this" threat upon what you see as disruptive.
If man extended to others, the freedom to believe, and behave, in a manner they readily extend to themselves, I believe the truth to really what is sustainable (living) would become manifest, and all diversionary options revealed as shortcomings.
I know this looks good in theory ( too me
) and next to impossible to fulfill, however, if I find I practise it, I have freed myself from the energy to battle all these society skirmishes, that will never see resolution to the reason(s) for them.
Am I copping out, no, it just that my "battle" is on a much smaller theater .
Edit: let me give you a possible skirmish in the future with the hope it might show how these "battles" evolve around their own personal survival ( to their beliefs) and not about alliances.
Let advance the possibility in the future medical science will find evidence that homosexuals have a distinct trait/marker, and their sexual behavior/preference is derived from that difference.
Now armed with such information, many myths, and beliefs, will/should be dispelled re: homosexuality, and many of these "battles" ended, and all the energy it takes to wage them perhaps directed to a more peaceful endeavor.
Now picture this, with this new discovery (truth) another element, or weapon, has given opportunity to wage a new skirmish, and break up societal alliances.....
If a heterosexual couple, lets add some wood to the fire
, say a evangelical zealot couple who interprets the bible to eradicate sin ( in others) finds through a prenatal study their "embryo" has a distinct possibility of being homosexual based on the findings that has linked those traits/markers, that they now will abort this "baby" instead of terming and raising.
Wow, look how all those beliefs have been surrender to "justify" self.
Would it be an easy assumption that the homosexual community would now be the driving force against abortion on the argument its a woman's right?
Can you see what I mean webby?