The Westboro Baptist Church people, who preach "God hates fags" and similar misanthropic messages, are nonetheless real Christians. If their church is not Christian, what about your church?
If hating gays means you are not a Christian, what if you hate Africans? What if you enslave them? In that case, the entire antebellum South was not Christian. What if you not only hate gays, but also witches; what if you not only hate them but burn them alive- can you be Christian? If people who torture and burn gays and witches cannot be Christians, then the entire medieval church was not Christian.
Is hating and burning gays and witches "extremism"? If so, then the entire medieval church, all of Western Christendom, was extremist. If hating and persecuting Jews ostensibly because "the Jews killed Jesus" is extremism, then most of Christian history is extremist.
Therefore whether we think they are "extremist" or not, whether we like them or not, the Westboro people are real Christians. Yet for all their hatred, at least the Westboro people do not fly airplanes into gay bars.
In Islam, even more than Christianity, people who take their religion seriously become "extremist". One could argue that the majority of Islam is "extremist". A brief Internet search of the phrases, "terrorist attack", and "honor killing", and "Mohammed cartoon fatwa" will show that serious Islam is a serious threat.
It does appear that religionists who take their teachings seriously, are also more "extremist". That is what is wrong with religion: the "extremists" are the real ones.
2. See how the Westboro man goes to his wife and hides behind her, and she takes up the fight. This is what is really wrong with America: not gay men, but disappearing men.
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