The Orlando massacre puts it out there for all to see, no matter where you are in society at large.
America has a diversity problem.
And our leaders don’t seem to know the next move.
Republicans awkwardly try to show compassion toward the LGBTQIA while we all know that a good many of the pols would have no problem discriminating against them on marital rights, bathroom rights, or any kind of civil liberties, if they were to suddenly be raised from the dead.
And then there is the gun issue. How false is any show of sympathy when there is no will to pass meaningful legislation on guns?
But the biggest problem may not be homophobia and guns, but rather Islamophobia.
And, of course, Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump has taken this moment to fan the flames of Islamophobia.