To further illustrate the point...

That "gay rights" activists have to overhype every perceived criticism and turn it into a case of out-and-out persecution.

An usher at a Seattle Mariners home game against the Boston Red Sox tells a lesbian couple to stop making out because a woman a few rows over, who was attending the game with several children, found the behavior inappropriate (kudos to her for speaking up!) and did not want to explain to the children why two women were kissing.

Note the absolute condescension in the tone of the "gay rights" spokesman who rushed to the lesbians' defense:

"'Certain individuals have not yet caught up. Those people see a gay or lesbian couple and they stare or say something,' said Josh Friedes of Equal Rights Washington. 'This is one of the challenges of being gay. Everyday things can become sources of trauma.'"

So apparently telling someone to stop making out in front of impressionable young children is now a source of trauma? You know that if it was a homosexual being offended by heterosexual behavior, there would be a major outcry about the perceived "insensitivity" of heterosexuals.

I'd tell them to suck it up and act like adults, but I'm pretty sure someone, somewhere would find an excuse to construe that as a homophobic remark (the word "homophobia" and its variants being misnomers, but that can keep for another time).

As Mark Shea frequently mentions in his blog, it's not enough to merely tolerate homosexual behavior. As he often puts it: "YOU. MUST. APPROVE."

The article can be found here.