Hate is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Have you seen this? What do you think about it?

http://www.businessinsider.com/gay-businessman-deeply-sorry-for-hosting-ted-cruz-event-2015-4

It seems to me that more dialogue is beneficial, gracious, and humanizing. When "conservatives" do not engage people of differing ideologies they are labeled as bigots, narrow-minded, and hateful.

Here we have two homosexual men, Reisner and Weiderpass, having a dialogue with a Republican, anti-gay marriage senator, Ted Cruz. Yet the response from the LGBTQ community is a hateful condemnation of the event and a call to boycott the couples' businesses.

It seems to me this is the same sort of bigoted, hateful, narrow-minded thinking the LGBTQ community rails against in "conservatives."

Would it not be more productive to praise both parties for their desire to engage in civil dialogue in search of mutual understanding and common ground? As long as dialogue is seen as "consorting with the enemy" progress across any gulf that separates two ideologies will be hard won. As for me, I will write an email to Reisner and Weiderpass and thank them for hosting the event, encourage them to host more such events, and embolden them to call out the hypocrisy of their friends.