Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity – but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifically and medically accurate information in an attempt to counter the ignorance and to restore the balance.

Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.

The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed.

The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people – which is why I am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.

You cannot reason with unreasonable people

People attacking a group from outside will simply cause that group to close ranks and unify and become even stronger – which is why, knowing this, they will try to attack the group from the inside and turn parts of the whole against itself.

isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?

They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a 'suicidal lifestyle'. And yet they do this - and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a 'true' Christian. As if THEY are.

The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.