I'm not reading the article, but do they even hear the other side out? When a Christian says they don't agree with same sex unions libs always jump to "GAY HATING HOMOPHOBE!!1!1" finger pointing, but what Christ actually taught was to love people and hate the sins people commit.
"Sin" is from the same source as homophobia and "What jesus taught" isn't held as reality by many. I mean, parents bringing up archaic nonsense beliefs and expecting them to hold weight happens in literally every generation of every family. Just tonight, my mother was talking about having looked at old family photos and become nauseous, which she and my stepfather both attributed to attached ghosts. She even acknowledged that she read that photos from nearly 100 years ago were developed using harsh and toxic chemicals, but that explanation went out the window because she"didn't smell them." I mean... bless her heart, and it was a good thanksgiving and she didn't sound all that sold on the ghost theory... but try snorting lines of CO2 until you're about to die of asphyxiation and then tell me what it smells like >_>. I'm obviously being obtuse on purpose. The point is, people form stories and beliefs around the unknown instead of leaving it unknown. I've had experiences I can't explain. I left them unexplained and I'm content with that. Religion is not. Religion stretches to explain everything and it doesn't care what fallacies arise in the process. Sin is an example of such a fallacious explanation and jesus being "hate the sin, not the winner *shrug emoji* is a means to handle "sinners" first by non-alienation and then hopefully from their perspective, conversion.
Have you ever thought that maybe it's not religion, but your own experiences and trying to justify your own actions? ---
My name is Harpuia, one of the four Guardians of Master X and General of the Strong Air Battalion, The Rekku Army.