And referring to it as "pet issues" delegitimizes and dehumanizes the LGBT community. It's as if you're a voter in the mid-19th century talking about slavery with your friend, who keeps telling you that the institution of slavery needs to be abolished and every right a white man has needs to be given to the black man; and you retort, "But we have a union to keep together! Think of the country, it will rip us apart!"
Calling them "pet" issues is dismissive of their claims of importance. I find it abhorrent you're arguing for the term.
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