November 7, 2005, here on slacktivist: Hothouse flowers
The real motive at work here, I suspect, has far less to do with any actual or perceived threat to the “institution of marriage” than it does with the terrifying suspicion that their own fundamentalist faith is too flimsy to survive in a pluralist public square. Their faith is so weak, so fragile, that the mere existence of other viewpoints — and the public acknowledgment of them — is as frightening as the idea of “gay people paratrooping in to occupy the vestry.” Such timid faith can only be exercised freely under the canopy of legally established religion.
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