"The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us..." should we be grateful?

[Esquilax]

Again, I am thankful I have never met any of these radical minorities.

I have: my brother in law is inexplicably insistent in his views on the gays. Which is a problem, because my mother-in-law is, by the looks of things, about to marry a woman. Doesn't stop him from ruining family events by voicing his views.

The point, such as it is, is that you need to remember that you wouldn't always be able to label that kind of person as a "radical minority," because for the majority of your religion's history they've been the exact opposite. Homophobia was a big part of the crucible which forged your current religion, it's present in the holy books you use... dismissing all of that as being the views of the minority seems glib, in the face of the history of discrimination that your religion possesses, where the views of those signs were echoed exactly.