Thanks for your response. In America the homosexual community is a well-funded/organized faction that forms law advocacy groups, homosexual business directories, career-advancement groups in many career fields to the exclusion of non-homosexuals, and homosexual political PACs. And pushes for pro-homosexual indoctrination programs in the public/government primary and secondary schools, often at taxpayers' expense. I'm surprised if your country hasn't been experiencing something similar.
And I think 'faction' is the right term, i.e. working for their own gain at the relative expense of others. (e.g. undermining the 'freedom of non-association' that's everyone's natural right in matters of employment, housing rental, etc.) Generally the pro-homosexual faction seems to operate as part of the roughly 'anti-whitemalestraightchristian' coalition.
None of this familiar over there?
Not to as great an extent.
This may be because our laws are already far more liberal than yours on this matter.
There certainly are gay rights groups out there, you must surely have heard for example of Peter Tatchell a very well known campaigner on the subject.
The problem here is that social issues like abortion, gay marriage are not considered as important as they are in the States.
In the US you have two very clear sides ‘going at it’ for want of a better term, whereas here, you have a gay rights groups that aren’t really taken too seriously by the political establishment and a few voices within the Lords as my link showed and the odd voiced opinion from the church again, neither of which are taken too seriously.
The whole gay liberalisation of the late 90’s early 00’s was part of the new labour ‘cool britannia’ drive.
An openly gay Republican is near enough unheard of in the US, but over here, the Conservative Party has several homosexual politicians, some serving in very senior positions.
As I’ve said, I don’t paticuarly have a problem with gay people, I’m not going to preach to them, so long as they don’t get into any position where they can to me - and thankfully that situation hasn’t really arisen.