Homosexuality and bisexuality will be recognized simply as a normal and natural sexual orientation for a minority of people. God destroyed the men, women and children of Sodom because of sexual orientation of the men of the city. To their credit, Evangelicals and some mainline leaders frequently mention that true Christians should love the homosexual while hating the homosexual behavior. We would counsel strongly in relation to homosexuality that you could hold your religious beliefs without beating people up and being violent. Much gay bashing can be traced to the lack of acceptance of minority sexual orientations by religious denominations.
Some people interpret their church's teachings as implying that it is always open season on gays.
Hate crimes against homosexuals occur at a higher rate than those based on ethnicity or national origin. The are probably more common that hate crimes based on religion, and second only to race-based crimes. If society generally accepted homosexuality as normal and natural, then more youth would choose to be gay or lesbian. This would increase the already high numbers of suicides among homosexuals. Religious liberals generally feel that the high suicide rate is caused by society's oppression of gays and lesbians.