How to Persecute Minorities and Feel Good About It (for Jesus)

Golly! I'm in a pickle. I like to think of myself as a thoroughly tolerant Christian man of the new millennium, but I also enjoy stripping away the rights of my fellow citizens because they're different than me.

Isn't there any way that I can be a small-minded bigot and sleep soundly in a cocoon of self-deluded rationalization?

Yes (on 1) there is, as a matter of fact (according to this group of Conservative Christians)!

Oh, so what you're saying is I can do or think whatever horrible thing I like, just so long as I pretend like I'm doing it in the service of some vague, imaginary ideal? It's what Jesus died on the cross at Normandy for.

Yay, whatever this thing is that I've decided is not bigotry!

Tags: Christianity, LGBT, Maine, Marriage Equality, Religion