But the far right is able to maintain its Christian requirement for love by creating this separation between the person and that person's sexual identity. This accounts for the vehement opposition by the right to any theory which would puts gay identity into biological terms. This response is profoundly ineffective. First, the sin vs. sinner caveat allows the radical right to duck the charge. Second, chanting outside of any church or church function is a guaranteed loss.
Activists clearly lose the sound bite war.
What's more, they become what they claim to oppose. Liberals and constitutional conservatives see the separation of church and state as an incontrovertible rule set forth in the constitution. The far right does not see this belief to be in conflict with constitutional principles. In the view of the extreme right, it is the business of government to decide what makes a good citizen and to enact laws promoting that standard. The question of what characterizes a good citizen is in fundamentalists' eyes is a profoundly religious one.