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

[Esquilax]

So are you saying we should still generalize all Christians as thinking gays are vile?

Not at all. I just find myself troubled by certain christians thinking "those people are in the minority," is an adequate response, when to an actual member of the LGBTQ community who grew up at the tail end of homophobia's social acceptability, it comes across as altogether too simplistic and trivial a response for a very real issue.

I'm glad that you don't share those views, and I don't think for a moment that you should be put in a position of having to defend them, but the way you put them out of your mind as if they're no big deal is a problem for guys like me who still find themselves shamed daily by those exact attitudes. Yes, a small percentage of christians find themselves swayed to homophobia by the bible now, but that wasn't always the case, and it certainly was not the bible that prompted this change. You guys had yourself dragged kicking and screaming into equality, and now many among you just want to just wipe away the tears from the tantrum and then act like it never happened at all. Well, sorry, but that kind of refusal to recognize the past leaves one dangerously close to repeating it, an act that we've seen time and again when fundamentalist movements are allowed to have their way by christians and secularists alike not seeing the threat and doing nothing.