"All politics is local." - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 15/10/2012 11:05:51 PM
Which is often how it goes, as far as I can see - it's rather hard to remain bigoted about it when it's your own son or sibling (or parent) who is gay. Or pretends to be, either way.
Time and again my experience and that of many others has been that many people are indifferent to the problems of others as long as they remain the problems of OTHERS. Once it affects someone they know or, worse, themselves, they have a sudden humanist epiphany that is really just enlightened self interest. That is shameful enough for anyone, but since Christ was the first to state the Golden Rule actively rather than passively it is particularly inexcusable in Christians.