One aspect that is interesting in the film is the role of masculinity and femininity. While the girl was two mothers, it is clear one ("play sports!") is the masculine figure and one that wishes to talk is the feminine one. Also, the notion that gay women would play sports and gay men would be in drama. So, I think it shows how hard wired certain gender roles are established that even when you "switch" things you have these conditioning factors at play.

The message is simple though, misunderstood minorities are ostracized from their communities and even their families. You can see all sorts of pocket communities of this where people are disassociated or bullied because they are some sort of "other". The argument of wishing for greater understanding to reduce ignorance and hate is a fine message.

Marriage is part of law, so if there is a problem with it you have to change it. And as for visitation it was banned in the USA until 2010, and is still banned in many countries.

The Church can have whatever laws they want, but they shouldn't be for everyone else (i.e actual laws). The Church shouldn't be allowed to define what marriage is. And they have been forced to change before, with interracial and underage marriage. Was that wrong?

I am not saying that marriage has to be the same as the first ones, I am pointing out that the definition of marriage has changed over time and is also independent of religion.

(This image isn't directed at you or anyone here, but sums up how attitudes change over time)

Edit: Here is some info on the hospital visitation

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/15/hospital.gay.visitation/index.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-hospital-visitation

Parents who don't approve of their son's homosexuality can prevent their son's boyfriend from visiting him. Also, you didn't respond to my point about nobody wanting to force the church to do anything.

So you're telling me if my friend had an accident , I cannot visit him/her unless I am married to him/her? , I find that hard to believe.

I added some links above. There are relatives only laws when it comes to hospital visitation, so it would be up to the family of your friend.

These things happened to you?  If so, that is terrible and no one should be bullied in that matter.

Maybe it is because of where I grew up, but none of those things ever happened to me.  I knew gay people who were ashamed and bullied, and how the general society tolerated this treatment. No one has ever questioned my heterosexuality or how it relates to my character in any regard. It would be like drawing reference form the fact I am a south paw.

I would be curious on bullying how many cases of suicide a year in the US are of children bullied because they are heterosexual and if they are homosexual.  Keep in mind homosexuals tend to account for 5% of the population so I'd factor that in as well. I think (and correct me if I am wrong) we can agree that bullying children to point of suicide for what ever reason is an issue worth looking at.

except there are two things called right and wrong. churches are wrong in everything they do now, so they should be forced to do the right things.

I don't subscribe to either of those labels anyway.

homophobia, believing in god, taking money from the ignorant, turning people into ignorants, those kind of things.