Mr. Friscus
Governor
As a Christian, I myself have taken on fellow Christians who have this idea that homosexuality is some "special" sin. In reality, to the Christian, it's no different than adultery, premarital sex, etc.... yet, you have super small sects who are so vocal about it, and that's what gets reported in the media.Westboro Baptist Church IS a religious body with a creed. I have never claimed that all Christians are like that, but they represent the extreme development of one strand of Christianity. They receive support from other Christian groups too, including the Russian Orthodox Christian ultrarightist Nathanael Kapner, and the largely Presbyterian Army of God.
They, too, claim to love the sinner and hate the sin ... and my point is that unless you can explain why attempting to take people's civil rights away is less serious than calling them names, you must admit that other homophobic Christians (who are not all Christians, of course) in practice are equally hateful toward gays.
I'm no Christian hater ... I just detest people like this who happen to be Christians. I likewise detest Muslim homophobes, Jewish homophobes, atheist homophobes, etc.
Christianity, to it's detriment in society, isn't a brash, loud, vocal religion. They're encouraged to be humble, to give without getting credit. So it's understandable that those who do no digging and only read tabloids can get a distorted view of it.