Putting periods in between words won't help,

Assuming that their minds work, and trying to find which path they take is like trying to dry lake Michgan with a face towel. Your basic assumption that they "think" is just wrong. They have deliberately turned off that part of their brain that permits rational thinking. Faith, apparently, permits irrational ideas to become the end all and be all of their warped, flat earth, 6,000 year old universe.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They function solely on the basis of their limited-function, reptilian limbic brains.

1) The Christian Religion is the One True Way.
2) The Christian Religion declares that gays are mortal sinners.
3) The United States is a Christian country, and that means what is prohibited by Christianity should rightly be prohibited by the State. Forget the 1st Amendment, that only applies to freedom of Christian worship.
4) Now, here's where it gets tricky: for the State to force a Christian to live in an ungodly society is to do violence unto the believer. Refer back to #3: the State should enforce that which is Right, and that which is Right is defined by the Christian religion. For the State to not enforce that which is Right, is in itself a sin. To acquiesce in sin is also to sin, be it an individual or a State who so acquiesces.
5) Sinners should be forced to conform to that which is Right insofar as it is possible to do so. Their sin is between them and that god-thing, but their actions in civil society are the province of law and community standards, which should conform to that which is Right.

Now, you ask about "bullying," but that word doesn't apply here, really. An anti-gay sticker (or anti-gay legislation) does not "bully" a gay person, for two reasons: 1) As indicated above, it is the responsibility of the true believer to shun sin wherever it appears, and 2) an individual may be a sinner, but he has no right to sin; the opposite in fact. It's an important point: an individual only has the "right" to do right, if he does wrong he does so not by "right," but by wickedness. And defiance, it is usually presumed.

There is another tricky point, but essential: he who commits the sin of homosexuality is also attacking the community, bringing evil to the people and encouraging, by his very existence, others to sin. To bully is to violate an individual's right to his own person. A gay person has no such right to violate.

Further, for a godless member of the community to openly support gays is to openly support sin, which is another attack on community standards that is intolerable to the true believer. Again, such a person has no right to avow such support, so attacking them is not bullying but simply asserting the true right, which is the right to live in a godly community. The Christian is being "bullied," therefore, because he does have a right to attempt to live in a Christian manner (as these people define it).

In summary, since it is a sin to be gay, or support gays, no one has a right to do these things and therefore they cannot be bullied. But it is bullying to force a Believer to accommodate such sinners, because that is forcing the believer to sin against his will, which is a terrible abomination.

I hope that clears things up for you a little. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go wash my mind out with bleach.

-- Mal

Didn't mean to make you hurt yourself like that! Having to think in their crazed logic must be very painful.

Does not exactly give me comfort, but there it is. Careful with that bleach.