You are right.

And, indeed, some will deserve it. For example in Minnesota it was a coalition of Religious groups who played a very large role in defeating the amendment. When the head of the Lutheran Church passes out literature at the gates of the state fair, it says something.

But the opponents of marriage will also claim that they too defeated discrimination. The children of the Southern Baptists (for example) will believe that their parents were instrumental in ending anti-gay discrimination.

The funny thing is that in a way they will be right. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but hear me out.

Those who stand in the way of equality will some day move. And when they move, equality will come. And they will move loudly and proudly and with great fanfare welcoming in equality.

Some day the Southern Baptists will declare at their convention that discrimination against gay people is a sin. And they will do so in opposition to those who will be – at that time – a minority. And they will see themselves as champions for equality – which, in their own denomination, they will be. And on that day we will sing the praises of those who fought that battle.

But of course it is also true that Christianity has been the strongest excuse in this country for inequality. Both now and with slavery. Without question.

And when discrimination against gays and lesbians is a distant memory the same christians will be claiming christianity was solely responsible for ending it.

It sickens me how revisionist some Christians are about their destructive participation in the colonial and demolition of indigenous people all over the world.
They exploited the poverty that such people were forced into to shore up taking away their children arbitrarily as proof that these tribes were unfit to raise their own children.
My own family were victims of missionaries and it’s extremely hard for me not to scream whenever there is so little ownership of such a past and it’s negative effects.
The power of Christianity was NOT gleaned by compassionate persuasion. Only a minority of it did so.
You’d think by some recent articles, that Christians were SOLELY responsible for the destruction of the Nazis, Communism, reversal of Jim Crow and women’s liberation.
And gay people were responsible for the destruction of everything, even the Roman Empire.
Their retrospect sure doesn’t square with events, does it?

It’s amazing that he doesn’t see the irony in this statement. Society is doing exactly that, which is why support for gay rights is gaining acceptance.

Really? Does Donohue even know the history of the Catholic Church? The anti-semitism, the support for slavery, the racist attitudes inherent in the church? Idiot.

Which have Biblical support.