There are many religious gay people.

There are many religious, African American, gay people.

There are many churches and religions that embrace gay people.

While religion far too often has been used as the justification for holding
hateful and prejudiced beliefs, and while, yes, there are many black churches
that preach virulent homophoba, this POLITICAL debate, in the secular
world, should NOT be framed as the church vs. the gays, which is a
truly offensive dynamic and one which perpetuates wrongheaded
stereotypes, in and of itself.

This is where the Obama campaign has it wrong. He is not running for
Preacher-in-chief. He is running for President. This should
not be about bringing together two "sides," this should be about forceful
leadership.

The kind of leadership that explains, in no uncertain terms, to the
homophobes, both church attending and non, that their bigotry has
no place at all in civil society or human law.

Do not present this as if there were some kind of moral equivalence
between advancing human rights and opposing them.

There isn't.