People like to say "stay in your own lane!" That if you're for African American rights, stick to fighting for African American rights. If you're for women's rights, stick to fighting for women's rights, and if you're for gay rights, then stick to fighting for gay rights. Well that would make some sense except for one thing; they are all the same lane. They are the same lane because each each involves the persecution of people for that over which they have zero control. No one can determine what color they are born with. No one can determine what gender they are born as, and no one can determine what their sexual orientation is when born either.
These three elements of who we are is what we enter this world with and what we will leave it with as well. We have zero control over any of it and therefore it is wrong in every conceivable sense to persecute and oppress people for that over that which they bear zero responsibility for if it is indeed a crime to be born as who you are, then everyone who is born is guilty of something since there is something about everybody that is bound to offend somebody.
Therefore it is far better for everyone to respect the rights and dignity of others; to treat them as we wish to be treated for history has shown time and time again, that the more people who do this, the fewer troubles there will be in the world. We have the right to dislike anyone for any reason; however wrong or irrational those reasons may be, but none of us has the right to use this dislike as an excuse to treat others in a way that we would not like being treated ourselves. That is where the line is and those who cross it are themselves the real problem rather than those who's color, gender, and sexual orientation give them offense.
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