Why are gay people a Christian target?

[Colorado127]

I am perplexed by fundamentalist christians that are always targeting gay people. They want to pass all sorts of laws restricting rights and privileges that everyone else has. What frustrates me the most is that they seem to be tunnel-visioned on gays. There are many things in the christian bible that they could talk about. I bet you there are more adulterers in the US than gay people and adultery is a ten commandments topic. What about honoring your parents? Can we focus on that for a while? This gay marriage thing being a religious idea only? I know of several religions that encourage gay people to find partners to marry including Unity, Unitarian Universalists and the Quakers.

I believe that gay people are the target because the christian religion, or its higher ups, have nothing else to target? They have lost the battle with alcohol and porn, they used to say black people couldn't marry white people but can't do that anymore. They try to stop drugs but you can't pass any more laws about that. Ok I'm being a bit out there, but really, Christianity has been losing its control over its flock for decades, if not centuries. Every sociologist and psychology person can easily see that when someone or some group sees its former control waning they will do anything to regain it. It's a desparate act. These fundamentalist christians have to find something to rally the troops.....wha-laa!.....gay people. A marginalized group in our over masculinized, sports culture that many people feel uncomfortable with. From history, the Nazi's for example, we know that hate is an excellent way to mobilize a group.

Isn't it blatantly unconstitutional to forbid the marriage of two people? In Virginia they want to outlaw any 'marraige like' contracts between two people of the same sex, doesn't that seem unconstitutional? The sodomy laws that Chief Justice Souter condemned was obviously directed at gay men. The 14th amendments says no state shall pass a law abridging the rights of its citizens. The only people saying I cannot marry another guy is christians? Right there we have a church-state conflict.

Ok, let me have it!

[alexdocherty]

Here's something which I find strange.
Christians use their scriptures as evidence that homosexuals are 'unnatural', yet, they have no proof that their precious Bible is in any way accurate or reliable.
In fact, it's blatantly obvious that it isn't.
So why do Christians still use their holy book as a means of argument?
If some ancient man wrote a thousand odd years ago that two men shouldn't sleep together how in any way does that still apply to modern context?
Do people not realise that humans and society have changed since these days?
It may have been considered immoral centuries ago, but why is that still maintained in a modern world?
Christianity has little relevance in today's society. Sure, it helped us to build society by giving us the foundations of morals, but it would be outrageous to say that the teachings written thousands of years ago still apply today.
Why can they just not accept it? Christianity is slowly losing its manipulative hold over the world. It doesn't matter which minority they target. It's not going to change. Sorry.