I was raised to respect people with differing opinions/beliefs within reason.
there are plenty people that are actually in danger because if they live how they should be able to they risk getting killed.
I have pals who range from regular conservative to far right. And I have pals who range from regular liberals to far left.
Each side feels the other side doesn't respect some portion of humanity. Each side feels that the other has people who would like to kill them.
The bulk of each side is not out to kill people. Most conservatives are OK with LGBT people living their lives and doing their own thing. There are conservatives who have gay friends, and there are gay conservatives. They just don't want to be force fed someone else's ideology. Just like most non-religious people are OK with others going to church -- as long as they aren't being force fed religion.
However, in general of the two groups, in my experience, liberals are far less tolerant and more supportive of violence toward the other side.
For example , I used to live on the west coast, in the land of Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing, big law firms, etc., and involved some in academia. If you let folks at work know that voted conservative, you could get fired or pushed into the margins. And you would not be hired in the first place if anyone knew that beforehand. People running as regular conservatives (no extreme positions) for local government got threatened, got their property vandalized, and people came to their houses and threaten their wives and family. Being known as a conservative could get you ostracized in your neighborhood, with neighbors not letting their kids play with your kids. Where I lived, if you were a conservative, you had to be careful about who knew that.
There are perhaps some lower-population conservative areas that go the other way. But the above is more likely in big cities and their suburbs, where a lot of people live, and in big businesses, where a lot of people work.
