On a personal level, I can understand some emotion regarding abortion. If you truly believe the fetus is a living being who experiences pain, it is understandable that it needs to be protected.
It's about protecting a life, and that issue can get pretty emotional regardless of religious beliefs.


But regarding gay issues, I fail to see justification for the hype. To be blunt, there are just too many lies and groups focused SOLELY on gays to be really justified when you take a big picture look at the issue.

Being Buddhist is also a sin. Worshipping a false god is a sin that all Christian sects I have heard of believe will send a person to hell without repentance and change.
A Buddhist will typically raise his/her child in his/her religion.
If the Bible truly has no sin that is greater than another, I don't see how any Christian can espouse religious tolerance and equality, yet fight against homosexuality tolerance and equality like it's the plague.

On an ironic level, polls have shown that a gay person has a higher likelihood of getting elected than a non-Christian.


In addition, opinion polls have shown that non-Christians views of Christians (specifically evangelicals) have a lot to be desired.

A recent Barna poll asked individuals who would not consider themselves Christians to rank various social groups from most favorable to least favorable. The different groups included categories like military officers, ministers, evangelicals, Democrats, Republicans, real-estate agents, TV performers, lawyers, lesbians, and prostitutes. Out of the 11 groups specified in the poll, evangelicals ranked 10th, behind lawyers, lesbians, and Republicans, but finishing ahead of prostitutes. Only 22% of the respondents gave evangelicals a favorable rating. People have a negative view of evangelical Christians.

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Quite frankly, there is a lot that is beautiful about the Christian dogma. It's a tough religion to follow and live by.
But when all that SOME christians try to do is attempt to make others live by it, or at least some rules of it, it sours and distorts the image of the religion.
Quite frankly, I am amused at looking at some Christians and noting how often they quote the Bible, and how often their quotations are clearly outside of the Gospels. (As in, they almost never quote Jesus's teachings.)
Typically with the quotations centering on the Old Testament. And a reaction by some to being chided by the words of Christ can be very telling.

With that said, I believe most Christians are not like that. About 75% of this country is Christian, and I believe most just live out their lives as best they can.