text: Of course, you're absolutely correct.  For one example, if the Catholic Church did not have so many closeted clergy and hierarchy, much of this would not be happening.  The vitriol is just astounding.  As for the posters here, I don't know most of them, so I have no clue, but I suspect that you are right on target there, as well.  
  What I truly don't get is how these folks can fail to understand that no one in a society is safe and secure when we attack any particular group.  When one target is gone, a gang of bullies easily finds another.  Even if someone were to find something unacceptable, why mistreat others for it?  I have yet to find a gay person who has even tried to encourage me to become gay (and I have known and continue to know, many gay people).  How, in the name of all that is good, are gay people any kind of a threat to anyone?