Firstly the woman interviewed describes herself as “not that narrow minded”. In other words she’s being honest enough to admit that she’s confronted a bit by difference, but not overly-so. Like she wouldn’t want any harm to come to people who are different. And I think that describes a great many of the general public.

The problem is however that she admits that two guys holding hands is too much for her to deal with – it’s “in her face”. So it’s okay for gay men to exist yet she just doesn’t want to see any. She wants to only see heterosexual things in her world.

I know these are not her words, but what else can you conclude? And she doesn’t think that this attitude is “that narrow-minded”. Well madam it’s VERY narrow-minded.

What you are doing is willing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people back into hiding. Hiding which causes so much mental anguish which results in higher rates of suicide and anti-social behaviour and a far heavier burden on the health system.

And you’re setting up a community where dislike and intolerance of LGBTI people is subtly evident just under the surface, setting up the reason that the younger guy in this video can’t actually explain why he is confronted by two men holding hands other than to say it’s wrong. Truth be known he doesn’t know why he is confronted by it only that he knows from his upbringing in such a community that there is such a stigma about this that he had better say these kinds of things or he’ll potentially be labelled a poof himself and suffer the stigma himself.

They just don’t get it – they’re not THAT narrow-minded … bull shit – they’re bigots!