Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-30319080-20200314081317/@comment-38078079-20200314102115

I think you're seeing this with a little too much biased.

I mean to say that how things are said is a huge part of whether they are deemed homophobic or not, which I believe was explained to you at the time this all happened. I am going to write two sentences and I'll ask you to note the very different way they are expressed:

"I think this episode may be inappropriate to children, as it exposes them to complex topics like homosexuality, and this may influence their view on relationships."

"This episode is disgusting as it's indoctrinating children to the homosexual agenda, and I think it's awful that it'll ruin their minds with abnormal behaviour"

In the first, you are not expressing any moral or ethical judgements, but just saying that you think it is it wrong in neutral language. In the second, you are expressing moral and ethical judgement, with negative and insulting language towards an entire group of people. I would not be offended by the first, as an LGBT+ person, but I would by the second, as the second is homophobic.

If I also speak as a fellow religious person -?

The religious intolerance works on the same lines as the former. You have a right to express your religious beliefs, but not at the expense of putting down others or engaging in hate speech. If we took the view that religious people have a carte blanche to say anything, so long as it's part of their religion, we start a strange chain of privilege, in which some groups have more freedom of speech than others. . . "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others".

It's okay for you to say: "this makes me uncomfortable, as it goes against my religious beliefs". No one would bat an eyelid at that. It's not okay to engage in hate speech, but then say: "it's okay, because my religion says those things are bad". Religious tolerance means allowing you to express your beliefs, but it's your responsibility to express than in a way that's not intolerant of others in the process.