I think that Dan is 100% correct, but for one detail. He seems to represent a growing liberal left sentiment that views their own values as valid and others as oppressive. I happen to be part of the progressive left, but as a democrat, know I must keep space for dissent, including values I reject. I strongly support equality for the gay community, and I reject bullying in every form. However, I cannot accept that a liberal take on this subject makes my superior to more conservative views I personally find offensive. I will fight, using my vote, to allow my view to become a majority view, but to call it bullying is liberal values becoming judgemental and arrogant. Why is this leftist sentiment gowing in intolerance?

I think one needs to discern between what some Christians think (particularly the vocal hate mongers) and what Christ taught.

Gandhi had it right...

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Gandhi

I'm trying to follow the logic in Dan H's argument.

There are Christians who have schools in which they wish to educate their kids according to certain values. Dan H doesn't agree with those values and insists that they change their values to suit his wishes.

The government must force schools to adopt these values of Dan H. It seems the government must impose these values onto us to show how not to be bullies.

Dan Haesler, you say you prefer to keep out of theology. You also claim people have a right to freedom of worship. And I’d also agree with your sentiment that we have the right to pick and choose our beliefs, which I think is something to do with freedom of conscience.

I would encourage you along all of these paths. But the end result would be for you, as an unbeliever, to stop advising Christians on what they’re supposed to believe. Neither is it the role of the government to tell us what to believe. The government is not called upon to play this kind of role of social engineer.