The new hot button issue for the religious right is homosexuality. While abortion continues to be a top priority, right-wing Christian leaders believe that there is a wider constituency that can be mobilized to oppose gay civil rights. And the way they ar e doing it is through a cynical exploitation of people's ignorance and fears about homosexuality, to move this wider, unwitting constituency closer to theocracy. We are created in the image and likeness of God. God is Trinity.
Trinity is community.
We are part of a community. Conservative Christian opposition to homosexuality is not new. However, the current stridently political focus on gays and lesbians is unprecedented. The anti-gay referenda in Colorado and Oregon in 1992 led the way. While the former passed and the latter failed, anti-gay ballot initiatives turned out to be powerful politics with a violent undercurrent.