(Those kinds of) protests aren’t for convincing the average person. The point of a protest is to tell the people in power “there are a lot of us, and you can’t afford to ignore us.”

Unfortunately homophones think that AIDS is God’s curse for being gay, so they shouldn’t help victims or try to cure it. It’s “God’s will.”

So, uh, as someone who’s only ever read it and not heard it… how do you say it?

It’s how we’re conditioned to behave by society from birth. Break the rules and you get punished.