Why are Christians obsessed with Gay people?

[Redoubtable]

I've been following the podcast Unbelievable? for some time now. It features debates and discussions between and among different Christians and atheists. It seems like it's the atheists who always bring up homosexuality first. Right now it's the most popular critique of Christian theology. Regardless of whether the atheists are right or wrong, it seems like they are the one's who are most interested with making it an issue.

I think the intent of the thread was not to wonder why homosexuality is such a hot topic now, but why Christians (I'd extend this to Jews and Muslims and other religions also) have such a targeted opposition (bordering on obsession) to homosexual activity in general. It isn't atheists or the non-religious making it an issue, it was made an issue millennia ago when so-called sacred scriptures prescribed the death penalty to those who had sexual relations with someone of the same sex.

These prescriptions alone set the table for thousands of years of accepted violence and persecution targeted at homosexuals. Only now in recent decades have people increasingly come to see how harmful and arbitrary these attitudes were. So no, I don't believe it's the non-believers who are making it an issue, it's the religious who have made it an issue for thousands of years, and such an issue that they were willing to kill over it. It's only starting to become a non-issue now.