Believing or not believing that gay people deserve equal rights can involve hate, but often opinions on this subject are entirely based off alternate circumstances. The parents of Jedidiah Shultz in The Laramie Project show that not supporting gay culture does not automatically entail feeling hatred. Although his parents must love him very much, they "believed that homosexuality is wrong-they felt so strongly about it that they didn't want to come see their son do probably the most important thing he'd done to that point in his life." (Kaufman 12) and refused to attend a major event in his life due to it.
He said they had gone to every other event he had ever done, meaning they did care about his successes, and I'm sure it was hard for them to miss it.
I think that people have moral views and opinions that can't be changed, much like gay people say they can't change their sexual orientation. Even the love felt by a parent couldn't change this feeling, despite how much he means to them. As much as gay supporters and supporters of gay rights claim to be unfairly stereotyped negatively, they do the same to the opposition as being cold hearted haters.
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