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How?they brought it on themselvesI'll agree with your post, except the last sentence. I feel kind of bad for evangelical Christians who see the society around them "going to hell" in their eyes. The problem is how they can feel comfortable in our world without infringing on the rights of others. All the laws and law suits that have sprung up to either help or stop these Christians from living their beliefs have become a far more divisive topic than the religious right ever wished to begin. Racists and homophobes have jumped on their train, but I do wish there was a way to respect these people's rights to not engage in what they call sin, without tearing society apart.Christianity is in decline. It is being quickly being relegated to a subculture - a besieged one at that, given how the anti-discrimination laws are starting to be the law of the land. These Americans feel like their way of life is threatened by rising secularism, and there is an anxiety among many that their culture - unmoored from its Christian anchor - could go in any direction. So we see the racism and other anti social behaviors that were always in the sub surfacing, surfacing