The attacks on women's rights, transgender rights, gay rights etc by those describing themselves as "conservative" is not a question of minority protection or politics. Trying to justify their actions in reference to God is not a protection of religious freedoms or morals, it is an attack on the separation between church and state. Trying to discriminate based on skin colour, gender, sex or anything not related to that person's actions is nothing less than an attack on the most fundamental rights of each person in the constitution of every real democracy in the world! Discrimination is not something you can excuse with your own political opinion. Discrimination is one of the most fundamental attacks on the constitution of Western states and their core values! If we truly consider our system of democracy superiour over any dictatiorship or theocracy we must defend its core values! Undermining civil rights, enforcing surveillance and trying to abolish the teachings of enlightenment for a religious foundation pushes us closer to the dictatorships and terrorists we so despise!