@[member='smile72']
Rare is it that we fully see eye to eye, but that day has arrived, at least on this issue of forced change.
Now, obviously, forced change shouldn't be applied to everything; for some issues, it is a matter of waiting. However, when it comes to the civil rights of an oppressed group of people, I think forcing change is more than justified. And to add on to his examples, without intervention, who knows how long the institution of slavery would have continued in the Southern states.
And you need to be careful with your assumptions. Homosexuality is becoming more accepted in many places, but there are still a large amount of areas where that isn't the case (or the opposition has become even more extreme in retaliation). Waiting it out will accomplish nothing there.