Maybe I am from an older generation, that viewed homoseuxality as abnormal. Back in the day, i considered myself pretty tolerant (say versus my peers) around this specific demographic. A live and let live philosophy. Then at somepoint that I can't pinpoint, that demographic suddenly became militant, belligerent, and left wing. Nowadays, that lifestyle is force fed to us in mass quantities in the media,and I do not like it one bit. My level of tolerance has dropped proportionally.
That is my situation as well. Coming out of their closets, well, we knew they were in there. We'd seen Liberace, but it didn't stop there, suddenly parading down the street and invading the schools, schools which we had been told we couldn't pray to the very God that annihilated Sodom and Gomorrah.
I used to smoke cigarettes, and when I did, I was considerate--especially in enclosed spaces. I asked, and if people minded, I didn't. When the concept of non-smoking areas in restaurants came around, I was all for it, not just out of consideration, but to bring an end to complaints. A fairly large local restaurant went to considerable expense to set up their non-smoking area, separated by glass partitions and with a separate HVAC system that kept the air pressure in the smoking section slightly lower than in the rest of the restaurant, with the effect that you could stand by the open doorway and not smell the smoke inside. Shortly after that, anti-tobacco jihadis decided that smokers had no place indoors (in North Dakota!) and the restaurants, and taverns, lounges, and downtown working class (and even 'skid row') bars were suddenly required by law to be smoke free. Then you had to be outside and 50' from the door to have a cigarette. Not just relegated to the back of the bus, but kicked off.
Tolerance is one thing. Even (what
I consider) reasonable accommodation is okay, but I have found through experience that anyone who wants to encroach on what I do, how I live, how many lawn gnomes I can have in the yard, whatever, is someone to be viewed with great suspicion, to be watched vigilantly, who more often than not will try to impose their little tyrannies on me. I no longer give that inch.