Reply #62: No, there really aren't "bigger fish to fry."

[Sapphocrat]

The greatest danger is a zealot with a public platform who uses it to hurt others. Donnie McClurkin uses his celebrity to take advantage of his audience's "deeply held religious beliefs" in order to promote a specific, insiduous evil (whether he thinks he is "helping people" or not), and, in equal measure, to reassure his audience that their already-existing bigotry is righteous, godly.

Pat Robertson does the same thing.

George Bush does the same thing.

Combine corrupt religiosity with a heavy dose of false patriotism, and you can make the masses believe that eating kittens is right and good in the name of the Lord.

Donnie McClurkin is a hatemonger, no matter what twisted beliefs he uses to convince himself he is not.

Now -- and far more importantly: What makes you think "those who are against the rights of ALL human beings" are more worrisome than those who are against the rights of SOME human beings?

Is it because gay people are in the minority, so our rights are less important than those of any other group that outnumbers us?

Should the Civil Rights Act have been dismissed because there aren't as many black Americans as there are white Americans?