This is also a hot topic in Norway, allthough it has chilled a lil lately, it always seem to surface and has been more or less debated all the time for the last 5-8 years.

Our previous bishop was pro gay marriage, and pro humanity. Me being an atheist, i highly appreciated this powerfull mans set of thinking and acting. He was very debated and he always was er....cool about it.
Now, on the other hand, they have managed to tear down much of the work he put in for gay peoples rights. The new bishop is very oldfashioned regarding gay marriage and even accepting gay people at all. He wants to heal them from their illness and misguided behaviour with the word of God.

And that enrages me so. What did God try to teach hes minions by putting Jesus on earth if it was not to accept and love all people, be them misguided priests or poor statued custom officers?

Humans have put themself in such an exposed position.

The shady moral you mention, Aesop, we also see here. The government is being watched over so to not govern people life in every little detail. But when people love eachother, the very mission of Jesus, they find it totally acceptable to butt in (eehehe) and with religion and moral in hand slam down the sapling of societys acceptance of differences.