Where did you get this bizarre idea that sexual orientation is about “beliefs” than simply about the way people are born?
It’s simply established, scientific truth that there is no such thing as “grooming” for LGBTQ people, that no one chooses their sexual orientation or identity and no one can be persuaded to adopt a sexual identity or gender identity that isn’t actually theirs.
And what harm do you think would come of LGBTQ people being able to live life on the same terms as everyone else, wherever they are? Accepting that wouldn’t mean that you’d have to put up with the next cubicle over wearing assless chaps and nipple rings to the office; it just means that, if it’s ok that Jane brings her husband Bob into the office, it’s equally ok if Marcy brings in her wife Dee, or Chuck brings in his husband Dwayne-or that you can walk down the street holding hands with the person you were born to live, whoever that person is, without wondering if bigoted, paranoid jerks are going to instantly surround you and beat you to death.
You don’t really object to people being able to count on things like that, do you?
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, meant that LGBTQ people in the service had to keep their personal truth hidden, no matter what. It meant that the bereaved partner or a service person had no right to attend the military funeral of the soldier/sailor/Marine/airman they loved, no right to have the flag over the coffin handed to them or to have their grief recognized in the ceremony.
Do you really think things like THAT are justifiable?
Do you really think kids should be encouraged to shout homophobic slurs at other kids on the playground, often for no reason than that those kids aren’t behaving in whatever is considered the gender-acceptable mode of behavior? Do you think it should be left unchallenged when the name-calling escalates into violence?
Do you really think parents should be able to force their LGBTQ teens into “conversion therapy”, where they receive no actual “therapy” but are simply subjected to weeks of verbal abuse and demands that they become “straight” even though the therapist knows this doesn’t work and even though there is ample evidence that such “therapy” does has no effect other than to scar these kids for life?
Nobody would put themselves through any or all of the above for any aspect of themselves they could change, anything that was just a “belief”. And nobody could possibly be “recruited” into living through things like that.
What, exactly, would you have to lose from simply accepting that people are who they are on this and that, when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity, nobody can either be “recruited” to or “converted” out of their personal truth, their innate reality?
