I'm curious why the discussion developed this way, since the article is apparently about how a Christian group is seeking to use a mobile app to more effectively rally support, in the same way that they feel opposition forces use technology to pressure businesses who do not "support the gay lifestyle." This is hardly a big deal, really. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with using laws to force acceptance of a lifestyle or belief, as much as allowing people to more efficiently use public pressure (boycotts, lobbying campaigns) to achieve (or resist) change.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
