Well, we’ve got a crowd of people protesting the Gay Pride Parade. Let’s suppose, hypothetically, that ALL of them are there to protest the moral threat of homosexuality.
If that was their objective, why bring Molotov cocktails? Why throw stones at the police?
For the same reason that they fired weapons at Lexington and Concord over taxation.
They considered it a gross violation of what they were.
Was it wrong to shoot British troops over taxation disagreements? Was Jefferson wrong to say it was just?