[the smiling weirwood]

Well that's what I meant. He opines that LGBT individuals should be refused certain rights and relegated to positions as second-class citizens because of their sexual orientation. That's what really got to me. You might as well legislate against black people, or redheads, or people who can't roll their tongues. It doesn't matter if your religion claims those things are sins, it's still not very responsible to advocate legal action against them, ignoring the basic principle of equality for *ALL* people under the law. If you do follow a religion like that, I'm sorry, but its a shitty religion.

I cannot understand the position that some people take that because others don't share *their* beliefs, and *their* values that those other people shouldn't be treated equally, or even as real people.

It was really pretty upsetting to find out that someone for whom I had great personal respect for thought that I was not equal to other people without ever having met me.