Tate Brown

And also like, I think part of the reason you're not seeing like a lot of Christians go to bat for this guy is because Christians have gotten really soft on the gay, the LGBT issue, like in the last 10 years, um, because Christians are, especially evangelicals are really sensitive to like how they're perceived by the world because they're ultimately evangelicals are like trying to bring people into the church.

You're saying you need to come, you need to come to our church and become a Christian.

So there it's, it's actually kind of a healthy tendency is they're like worried about putting, like turning people off the problem.

is this issue is so out of step with what the current consensus is from the world and the country by and large.

So yeah, as soon as you say like, yeah, maybe two gay guys getting married, I don't actually view that as a marriage.

It doesn't matter how left-wing you are on every other issue.

You're going to be perceived as like a right-wing bigot, et cetera.

I think the reason you're not seeing a lot of these Christians speak out, again, is because that is the one issue that makes Christians really uncomfortable and they have to speak out on.

That's why every time you see a pastor go up to give a sermon over like a passage that discusses homosexuality, they give you like a 15 minute preamble about how they don't hate homosexuals and they apologize for how Christians have treated homosexuals in the past.

That's why you see whenever you see the deconversions, right?

Where people...

have this reckoning and they realize, I'm not a Christian anymore.

I'm so out of step with my church, et cetera.

Typically, the issue you see them cite is how the church treats homosexuals.

I mean, Rhett and Link comes to mind where Rhett and Link had this video series.

It was so long ago now, but they were like, I can't be a Christian anymore.

I'm leaving the church.

And the main reason they cited, out of all the problems people could have with Christianity, out of all the critiques, even if they go through the history of the Bible and maybe where they think they could try and poke holes, et cetera, Rhett and Link were like, I had a gay friend and I realized I couldn't hug him anymore.

If I were to be true to my Christian values, I couldn't even hug him anymore, so therefore I can't be a Christian.

And that just kind of shows you how strong the homosexual issue is and how much pressure there is from the LGBT lobby or community, whatever you want to call them, because Christians are absolutely petrified on this issue.