seems we have gone from "we just want to be accepted"(that is fair) to "we want to be equal"(that is fair) to "we want special rights"(not fair) to "we want special rights so we can convert everyone to be just like us"(not fair)
I was with you 3/4 of the way...
It did start with wanting acceptance
It did move to wanting legal equality
In some instances, it has moved to people wanting "special rights" (certain groups demanding safe spaces on campuses, certain types of decorum at certain parades that would get most people arrested if they did that on a public street, demands about what pronouns everyone else has to use, things of that nature)
However, the last part you speak of, the
"we want special rights so we can convert everyone to be just like us"
I think that one's a bit of a stretch. The "grooming" aspects (while they may exist in some extraordinarily rare cases) aren't common. And the idea that gay people are trying to convert straight people into gay as part of some sexual conquest is pretty far fetched.
If you're talking about the much more vanilla benign premise of "we want the next generation to be ideologically in-line with us so that they'll vote the way we want on things once they're adults", then I may be able to grant you that premise...but it would then need to be pointed out that that would also be true of any Sunday School or Church Youth Group in America.
The entire backbone of the "
I should be the one who has the right to promulgate and instill values on certain topics to my child" argument is rooted people wanting to make ideological clones of themselves, yes?
I would assume the reason why my parents dragged me to Sunday School and made me attend the AWANA program for 14 years
wasn't because they wanted to me to freely choose whatever values system appealed to me without outside influence...I would think it's because from the time I was 3 until the time I was 17, they were hoping I'd wind up thinking just like them.