"What we have here is a failure to communicate" on account of one individual being exclusively focused on and enamored with his own thoughts (using that term in its broadest possible sense)--said "thoughts" being as articulate and coherent as a derailed runaway train.  You posted these questions:

"WHY IS THIS A STORY NOW?" It's a part of history and--good, bad or indifferent--history matters. Sometimes we can learn from it (present company excluded).  "WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?"  To what?  "SO CHARLIE...(W)HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF CHRISTIANS REFERRED TO HOMOSEXUALS AS THE "GAY LEFT?”  As this question is addressed to Mr. Wohlforth, I'm not obliged to answer it.  "WONDER WHAT THE LEFTISTS WOULD SAY??"  Ditto.  I'm not a 'leftist'.  I neither know nor care.

"WELL, I JUST SAID IT."  You're always saying something.  Problem is most of it is bakwa'as (that's Urdu for lumps of green, steaming, odoriforous matter that periodically drop from the south end of a northbound male bovine mammal).