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== Opposition to Gay Rights ==

== Opposition to Gay Rights ==

Since opposition to homosexuality is closely correlated with religious views, those who oppose the gay rights movement characterize its ignorance of religion as intolerance, similar to, or worse than, the intolerance leveled against gays. The rejoinder argument is that the gay rights movement does not seek to make religion illegal.

Many people find homosexuality immoral, sinful, distasteful, degrading, or less than ideal, and prefer that public policy does not encourage it. They also do not think that we should lose rights to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and traditional marriage in order to promote acceptance of homosexual behavior.

Conservatives criticize attempts by gay rights activists to prohibit any statements which are critical of homosexuality, such as the idea that it is "unnatural" or "sinful", using [[hate crime]]s statutes and anti-[[discrimination]] laws:  

Conservatives criticize attempts by gay rights activists to prohibit any statements which are critical of homosexuality, such as the idea that it is "unnatural" or "sinful", using [[hate crime]]s statutes and anti-[[discrimination]] laws: