Those other people? Fuck those people

I also don’t think it’s necessary to lash out at them

I love your rage and sensibility. In fact that's the name of your memoir right there

Emma Hart: Rage and Sensibility

there are people who would be perfectly justified in getting their panic on if what they were being told had any relationship to reality

A well made point, in your delightful style Craig. Some of the "bigots" out there are really only moving with the tide of the group they sit within. And I don't think we can get all up in their grill about it.

This is my favourite post on the subject matter so far, because it at least expresses a modicum of empathy for "the other side". So thank you Emma, you are one of the choicest people I know in an internety-I-met-you-once-at-a-Great-Blend kind of way.

On the whole I agree with you, but there are some "progressive" Christian leaders out there:

http://www.facebook.com/ChristiansForMarriageEqualityAotearoaNZ

For example...