Focus on the Family, sponsor of the Tim Tebow ad at the Super Bowl, isn't the only conservative evangelical group riling its critics right now.

Some folks are worried about President Obama munching toast at last week's National Prayer Breakfast with friends of Ugandan homophobe David Bahati. But while the prayer event held the headlines, leaders of the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, made news, too.

They wouldn't go as far as Uganda's kill-the-gays bill pushed by Bahati. They would just outlaw homosexuality, like shooting up illegal drugs, here in the USA, according to Tobin Grant's weekly roundup of the latest from Christian activist groups, for Christianity Today.

One says the U.S. Supreme Court erred in 2003 when it overturned laws criminalizing homosexuals' "private sexual conduct" and the other says gay behavior is a "public health menace."

First, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, at the end of a discussion of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, which boots gays out of military service, asked Peter Sprigg, a senior policy fellow for the Family Research Council, "should we outlaw gay behavior?" Sprigg replied:

I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned the sodomy laws in this country, was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association added to the outlaw idea during the Thursday edition of Focal Point, the AFA talk show he hosts. Restoring anti-sodomy laws, he says, would solve the "problems" of gay marriage, gay rights in the workplace and other issues. He said,

Laws not only curb dangerous and risky behavior, they keep such behavior from being normalized, sanctioned and endorsed by the rest of society, and as such render an enormous benefit to a healthy culture.

Christianity Today said Fischer rested his view on 1 Timothy 1:8-11, that,

... those 'who practice homosexuality' should come under the purview of the law just as much as those who take people captive in order to sell them into slavery."

When a listener complained, Fischer responded with a righteous reason -- citing the Bible and backing it up with a view that homosexual behavior should be regarded like illegal drug use -- as a threat to public health.

The bottom line here is that, biblically, those "who practice homosexuality" should come under the purview of the law just as much as those who take people captive in order to sell them into slavery.

You express a belief in the Scriptures, and I trust your confidence in Scripture is not selective. If you believe all Scripture is inspired, then you are compelled to accept that legal sanctions may appropriately be applied to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

So, maybe Obama, and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, who both condemned the proposed Ugandan legislation at the prayer event, will have a new, closer-to-home topic for the next event.

Do you base your view of homosexuality on your religious teachings? What happens when people interpret the same Bible different ways?