I mean, the far right (ultra conservative, alt-right, neo-nazis, whatever you want to call them) have basically built a stable platform entirely based on rejection and expulsion of homosexuals, brown immigrants, and non-Christians. I'd say that at least in the current time, it's absolutely a political issue, even though I also heartily would agree that it shouldn't be (nor should it be something that needs to be debated, honestly. Literally if you fail the most basic human decency test of "let others do what they want as long as nobody's getting hurt," you should probably just live on an island by yourself)