About a week ago I heard a Conservative make this point on NPR. He said (paraphrasing), "If you go back a few decades, you had blacks who had to ride in the back of the bus. You had lynchings. It was a terrible time. Gays are not dealing with that at all."
The host breathlessly said, "You really think so? Will we see that level of violence directed at gays??"
The Conservative was completely flummoxed but finally managed to blurt out, "I didn't say anything like that!"
They just can’t see around their template, can they?
The con was saying that being a homo was in no way like being black,
and the lib just couldn’t get past the assumption that they were the same, so applied the black experience to the homos.
Believable, and very enlightening as to their complete blindness.