*Only the words in bold in these quotations have been altered

A response to this exercise, of course, might be that replacing references to homosexuality with being redheaded is unfair because many people sincerely believe homosexuality is sinful. Of course, that’s partly the point. People also long believed that interracial marriage was sinful (factually, many still do) and there’s no shortage of examples throughout history of people regarding innocuous human characteristics such as being left-handed or redheaded with suspicion and even contempt, too. We need to be have an open conversation with people about their belief that homosexuality is sinful because that belief causes great harm to gay people and the larger LGBT community.

@stribs