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No, but I also have never seen a self-professed christian come out to call those folks out. I was raised christian and one of our new pastors was forced out because he was gay, and some of the charities our denomination supported got canned because they also ministered to gay people.

I don't think it's at all weird to point out that christians have a long and robust anti-gay streak going for them, and that's just one type of intolerance.




>”but I also have never seen a self-professed christian come out to call those folks out.”

To this I would say, the number of Christians who would enthusiastically denounce Westboro-Style beliefs and hostility to LGBT in the name of Christianity is very high. Especially in the contemporary era. There are plenty of reports in the news where Baptist churches have denounced the signs, slogans, and actions of the repugnant “god hates ***s” Westboro Baptist types and copycats.

At the end of the day, this is all anecdotal and the sheer number of Christians means you will find people that I mention, and people like you have mentioned. But based on the faithful I interact with as a non-Christian, I asset that the tolerant ones are far larger in population than the intolerant ones.


> I asset that the tolerant ones are far larger in population than the intolerant ones.

Who is casting votes for the intolerant politicians supporting intolerant laws then?




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