That's because you're using reason to argue with people who neither employ nor embrace it. A tiny step is good, but they and those who share in equally delusional "reasons" for denying others their basic human rights had best believe that a growing number of people aren't afraid to offend them or piss them off by ridiculing their ridiculous beliefs. In public, if at all possible. For some of us, it's a sacred, moral and PATRIOTIC duty.

I wouldn't say they're living in the 1950s, although they may be giving modernity a nod… they still believe in magical underwear, for fuck's sake!